Does the City deserve a kicking?

[Trommel]

BOR said:

YES. fk the City. fk the bankers and all the other trough pigs who just can't get enough of it, and who regularly fk it up for the rest of decent society.

Unfortunately, there is only one language these sociopaths understand, so my sympathies to innocent people who get caught up in it.

The worst thing is that this will probably be the one chance the governments have to destroy the influence of the financial organised crime world, but they're not seizing the chance.

It staggers me that the government is mincing around when they could, one way or another, destroy Fred Goodwin, destroy Barcap SCuM and bring the rest to heel.

There should be millions of people on these demos, but we just don't seem to fight back.

I suspect that this is just a hackneyed parody. No one could genuinely be so stupid.

[Cpn Jack Spanner]

ATG said:

Baby Huey said:

Don said:

Shame they aren't directing their ire at the people who are actually responsible.

Who's that then?

Certainly isn't me.

How about every individual who has bought a house in the last few years and thereby fueled the asset bubble that has just burst?

Anyone who ever gazumped on a house, absolutely - extra hard kicking with metal toe caps for all of them.

[BOR]

42% In favour of giving the city a kicking. 42%.

42% of PH ? That is an incredible amount. I really didn't think it would get above 10% here. Assuming that a minimum of 42% of the country feels the same, that is a staggeringly critical judgement on the financial industry.

[blindswelledrat]

BOR said:

42% In favour of......
I need a wash and a haircut.

[Cpn Jack Spanner]

juansolo said:

OJ said:

BOR said:

fk the tax take. How come you appologists ALWAYS boil everything down to how much money is involved ?

MONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEY

Any viable alternatives to suggest, or just daily mail fuelled vitriol?

We should all live in state funded bliss! Those that do work will of course have to pay for this in increased taxes, but they won't mind because they're greedy evil capitalist pigs...

Really it's a media fuelled frenzy that the low of intellect have decided they should be worked up about. I dispair for anyone who needs to be told what to think by the media because they're too lazy to think for themselves. The worry is that they seem to believe EVERYTHING that they're told these days. All the spin, all the bias, all the sensationalism, the diversionary scapegoating. Are the masses really this stupid these days?

Yes - state funded bliss for everyone. The state pays the poor, the lazy to say at home, the bankers to get their bonusses. Why shouldn't all the 'middle men' get paid for contributing nothing to anything as well!

[NoelWatson]

ATG said:

Baby Huey said:

Don said:

Shame they aren't directing their ire at the people who are actually responsible.

Who's that then?

Certainly isn't me.

How about every individual who has bought a house in the last few years and thereby fueled the asset bubble that has just burst?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/effc22be-1e25-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html

Point 4

Edited by NoelWatson on Wednesday 1st April 10:23

[Podie]

34 minutes to go...

ETA - could be interesting... 2 meat wagons just arrived.

Edited by Podie on Wednesday 1st April 10:23

[Zod]

helicopter hovering over Bishopsgate

[Cpn Jack Spanner]

Podie said:

34 minutes to go...

ETA - could be interesting... 2 meat wagons just arrived.

Edited by Podie on Wednesday 1st April 10:23

Is there a spectator area then? Or is like Monaco GP - you just watch from the windows.

Can you throw stuff? Water, feathers, boiling oil?

[Zippee]

Podie said:

34 minutes to go...

ETA - could be interesting... 2 meat wagons just arrived.

Edited by Podie on Wednesday 1st April 10:23

Where abouts are you based Podie? Just behind Cannon Street ,yself and can't see anything just yet.

[Somewhatfoolish]

thehawk said:

I really have no problem with making money as I said, it is the attitudes of many in the city that I despise. I guess you could call it the 'City' attitude if you will. I've seen quite a few people enter and within a while they are totally different people.

It even seem to affect semi-normal people, like many in the IT industry I've worked with that suddenly think they are 'all that' earning £100K as a contractor

I think this is more a south-east england thing than a city thing per se...

[Zippee]

BOR said:

42% In favour of giving the city a kicking. 42%.

42% of PH ? That is an incredible amount. I really didn't think it would get above 10% here. Assuming that a minimum of 42% of the country feels the same, that is a staggeringly critical judgement on the financial industry.

How about instead of all the cr4p you keep spouting you actually try justifying your arguments with some hard facts?

[oyster]

scorp said:

NDA said:

The city contributes an estimated £67.8bn of taxes, 14% of the total UK tax take.

I don't work in the city or in financial services (never have), but it would seem a bit myopic to just say 'feck em all'.

Money is worthless without actual production to match it, apart from monopolising cash and bad risk judgements, what do these city types actually produce ?

So you think a chocolate teapot factory adds more wealth to the economy than a bank?

[Podie]

Zippee said:

Podie said:

34 minutes to go...

ETA - could be interesting... 2 meat wagons just arrived.

Edited by Podie on Wednesday 1st April 10:23

Where abouts are you based Podie? Just behind Cannon Street ,yself and can't see anything just yet.

100 Liverpool St. Next to the station, looking down the road towards Moorgate in one direction, and over the "steels" and onto Broadgate Circle.

ETA - on the ground floor...!

Edited by Podie on Wednesday 1st April 10:33

[Podie]

Cpn Jack Spanner said:

Podie said:

34 minutes to go...

ETA - could be interesting... 2 meat wagons just arrived.

Edited by Podie on Wednesday 1st April 10:23

Is there a spectator area then? Or is like Monaco GP - you just watch from the windows.

Can you throw stuff? Water, feathers, boiling oil?

It's the Monaco GP I'm afraid. There is the option to go higher in the building for better photo ops though

[grumbledoak]

Cpn Jack Spanner said:

Can you throw stuff? Water, feathers, boiling oil?

Champagne is traditional, if you can open the windows.

[BOR]

grumbledoak said:

Cpn Jack Spanner said:

Can you throw stuff? Water, feathers, boiling oil?

Champagne is traditional, if you can open the windows.

Champagne ? That sounds a little arrogant, if you don't mind me saying. Sounds a little out of touch with how a lot of people are feeling right now.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

[Mr POD]

Come the revolution anyone in a suit with smooth hands will be forced to explain what they do for money and why.

Seriously, you have to watch marry poppins to understand that banking is like a prison for some people, and just a way of paying the mortgage.

[mattdaniels]

Looks like they have shut Bishopsgate southbound outside 199 and 280 - loads of cyclists blocking the road, jugglers, cyclists all sorts. Buses can't get past, riot vans and plod down there.

[Quaint]

Mr POD said:

Come the revolution anyone in a suit with smooth hands will be forced to explain what they do for money and why.

Well quite. Nothing like a good "Year Zero" bring-your-own-garden-implement-to-help-purge-the-bourgeoisie party, eh BOR? I wonder if he has a policy on the intelligentsia as well...

I have gone blue in the face trying to explain to well-meaning but ignorant acquaintances that only a tiny fraction of "city workers" receive enormous bonuses and so forth. The bulk of people working here are just doing a day-job like most other employed folk in the country.

Edited by Quaint on Wednesday 1st April 10:48