In another era the UK and Iceland would have now declared war on each other.
With the UK government enacting anti-terrorist laws to seize the assets of Icelandic financial institutions in the UK and Iceland having over £900 million of deposits from UK Council, Police, etc potentially now lost via their now nationalised banking system. With the condemnations of the UK government on Icelands actions (Gordon Brown called them effectively illegal for starters) and the 'unpleasentness' of the UK's actions sited by the Icelandic Prime Minister it has all the ingredients needed to put on the helmets and launch the longboats!
Anyway, I have a headache and am going to have a really early night to try and sleep it off.
Too many meetings and not enough time spent at home :(
Night.
With the UK government enacting anti-terrorist laws to seize the assets of Icelandic financial institutions in the UK and Iceland having over £900 million of deposits from UK Council, Police, etc potentially now lost via their now nationalised banking system. With the condemnations of the UK government on Icelands actions (Gordon Brown called them effectively illegal for starters) and the 'unpleasentness' of the UK's actions sited by the Icelandic Prime Minister it has all the ingredients needed to put on the helmets and launch the longboats!
Anyway, I have a headache and am going to have a really early night to try and sleep it off.
Too many meetings and not enough time spent at home :(
Night.
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angusabranson- Angus Abranson
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Seems to cover the salient points.
Then again, the US and the UK will likely recover from this crisis in a year or two. Iceland will probably take a decade or two.
Well done, Gordon.
They managed to wangle out of it by getting a legal ruling that they had no legal right to have made the trades in the first place and so didn't have to pay. Nobody lost their jobs over that bit of fuckwittery, and I wouldn't expect anyone at Kent or any other council to do so this time round either.
Heavens. I take back what I said about the financial sense spoken by the LibDems :)
Plus I'm not entriely sure I'd call myself a LibDem anymore.
I'm no longer a card carrying paid-up member and, for whatever reasons, haven't actually voted for them in any election since the last General Election.
Any return over (say) 2% over base rate is gambling to a greater or lesser extent. I'd expect a Local Authority FD (going rate £100,000 package + ) to be aware of that.
You're no longer libdem? Heavens, just when i'm finding them a more attractive proposition!
If they had more guts on pushing certain issues at certain times - and got more exposure - I think they'd be doing a lot better.
On non-political matters we should really try and rally up a few people for a drink sometime.
My great hope is for Labour to be so pasted in the next election that they're beaten into 3rd place and Vince becomes shadow chancellor - hopefully he'd make Osbourne raise his somewhat lacklustre game. I'll certainly be tactically voting next time, as the Labour majority in my constituency is only about 160 over the LibDems.
As for drinks, yes - I was hoping to go to DT's drinks until I found out they happened last week.
It is worse than a crime, it's a blunder.