Osborne shows true colours (From South Wales Argus)
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Osborne shows true colours
11:23am Friday 8th March 2013 in Letters
IT’S at moments like these when you see the true colours of Chancellor George Osborne. Right now he’s in Europe lobbying not for a rebate for hard-pressed British taxpayers or to enhance workers’ rights, but in the very week RBS posted record losses of £5 billion while simultaneously paying out £600 million in bonuses, the Chancellor is in Brussels lobbying to protect bankers’ bonuses!
While millionaire George Osborne is pronouncing austerity for the citizens of the UK on the one hand, he is trying to stop a new European law which would cap bankers’ bonuses to no more than one year’s pay with the other. The argument he’ll use is that if we cap his pals’ bonuses, London won’t be able to recruit the brightest and best.
Perhaps we should all apply for a job in the feckless City. Almost anyone could run a bank as badly as Fred Goodwin, especially if they get to keep their bonuses and a £16 million pension pot.
Pippa Bartolotti Yewberry Lane, Newport
Comments(8)
welshmen
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6:45pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Llanmartinangel
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8:35pm Fri 8 Mar 13
welshmen wrote:You've been over-dosing on Citizen Smith on UK Gold again mate.
Time for a Government for the people by the people, replace the toffs with people with WORKING experience not the silver spoon brigade we have now who only CARE for them selves....
scraptheWAG
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9:00pm Fri 8 Mar 13
THANKS ALOT LABOUR YOU WERE GREAT
welshmen
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1:24pm Sat 9 Mar 13
Llanmartinangel wrote:POWER TO THE PPPPPEOPLE....
welshmen wrote:You've been over-dosing on Citizen Smith on UK Gold again mate.
Time for a Government for the people by the people, replace the toffs with people with WORKING experience not the silver spoon brigade we have now who only CARE for them selves....
pinpong
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10:14am Sun 10 Mar 13
Llanmartinangel
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10:21am Sun 10 Mar 13
pinpong wrote:Ah the champagne variety of campaigners for the needy. Like the millionaire liar Ed Balls.
Pippa the jag driver in her big posh house on Yewberry lane would know all about the working class. Thats why nobody votes Green
rightsideup
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3:54pm Sun 10 Mar 13
scraptheWAG wrote:To say nothing of selling off our gold reserves at rock bottom price!.
yep labour were excellent to the working classes flooded the country with cheap labour to compete with working men and women of Newport, doubled the council tax and let house prices balloon through the roof all on the back of borrowed money, spend money like it was going out of fashion . All the grant money that wales now receives is spent on the WAG and yes now wales in the poorest nation in the whole of western europe
THANKS ALOT LABOUR YOU WERE GREAT
Howie' says...
5:17pm Fri 8 Mar 13
All thanks to Dave, George and the rest of the caring, sharing, compassionate Tory Government.