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Torture is a necessary evil when dealing with unsavoury people, the torture of Sheikh Khalid Mohammed at Guantanamo resulted in information that saved probably thousands of lives and resulted in several plots being foiled around the world. Torture is necessary to gain important information and if Milliband authorised it in certain cases he has gone up in my estimation as it will have saved lives. "Here is a nice cup of tea Abdul, now please tell me about the terrorist plots you know about" just doesn't work

if i got one of these cards there would be nothing in theory stopping someone going into HMV and buying a DVD, going into WH Smiths and buying a CD and going into a few other stores until asked to enter the PIN, apparently these cards are becoming compulsary for Barclays customers soon so Lloyds TSB (my bank) are bound to follow suit

Along comes this http://www.barclays.co.uk/Helpsupport/Barc.../P1242561764200 Wtf is this $h!t ? it is an absolute thieves charter, no need to sign or use a PIN number :rolleyes: someone steals our card they can use under £15 all over the place without having to enter a PIN, just swipe it oyster style Utter retardation :rolleyes:

It's not the way it works with supermarkets don't underestimate brand loyalty, the fact that the likes of Aldi and Netto are flopping big time despite the harshest recession since the 30's and some upmarket ones are doing amazing shows that price isn't everything, if Tesco's raise their prices to claw back fines from Cable then they won't lose customers as most customers don't give a monkeys about price or Aldi/Netto would have a monopoly over supermarket retailing now. Centrica was just an example, they would all get hammered by the government as they are all not passing on drops in wholesale prices to consumers and are making billions of £ of profit on the back of this, all the energy companies are in on the same scam so they would all get clobbered so there would be no alternative for the consumer than extra prices. BP/Shell/Esso etc would all get hammered by Cable too so again there would not be much competition for consumers if the money was clawed back and Asda/Tescos etc don't drill for oil themselves they buy it wholesale from BP and Shell etc so their prices would go up too

But how do you make them pay more without harming the end users ? BP we will get higher petrol prices as they recoup the penalties Centrica we will get higher gas prices as they recoup the penalties Banks we will get higher bank charges and less business funding Tescos we will get higher food prices It is unworkable without harming the end user

While I am generally in agreement with some of the things that Cable is saying and in theory agree with his bash the banks stuff in practice it will lead to even less lending to businesses as any penalties the banks get they will recoup either from higher penalties from consumers getting overdrawn or longer to clear cheques or starve small businesses of even more money as they divert their lending funds towards paying fines. Cable goes in too hard on the banks it will be counter productive and do more harm than good

Not a lot LMAO but needed to state my economic credentials

I am not talking about banks I am talking about entrepreneurs and small to medium sized businesses I have a lot of issues with banks, I know a number of people who are being denied business funding atm by banks and something needs to be done about that, if they start awarding themselves big bonuses then they need to be punished but what I am referring to is small and medium and family run businesses

When you have run a business from scratch to turn over £4.8m a year when you are 28 then you have every right to lecture me until then your socialist bull$h!t doesn't wash with me, I work in the real world, I run a business although as it is niche it turns over a lot less than my clothing company from a few years back but you get all your theories from textbooks I work in the sharp end of business.

Capitalism is an essential component of any modern society and should be its driving force, as Gordon Gekko said "Greed Is Good", success and making something of one's life should be a source of great pride and instead it is sneered at as if being a success in life is the same as being a paedophile or rapist For the last 13 years we have had creeping socialism, government thinking they know best and burdening entrepreneurs with more rules and regulations and directives and paperwork, if Britain is to be a powerhouse again it needs a free market for entrepreneurs to be successful and less regulation Entrepreneurs will lead the recovery so I hope Cable will leave business alone to do business

it is not particularly good by her recent standards (liked her Parachute/FFTL/3 Words) but it is a certainty for #1

I agreed with Rudd's idea of giving people money to spend in the High St, Brown should have done that instead of this 1p off a tin of beans crap that he bought in but Rudd was ultimately fired because he was as popular as Osama Bin Laden in a synagogue so while I liked a lot of his policies he was ultimately hated in Australia

The single best way to bring things under control is low taxes, tax cuts stimulate spending, tax cuts create jobs as more people see working as a viable option, tax cuts leaves more money in people's pockets to spend how they wish as opposed to Big Brother (government) spending the money for us. Low taxes and sweeping tax cuts are not possible until the debt is under control and down to manageable levels (probably 3 years) Tax cuts are the single most important issue for me and if a couple of years of economic difficulties is the way to make tax cuts viable then so be it

Even if I had used spoilers it would have been obvious who I was on about, I didn't use her name or anything in my post, it would be impossible to include spoilers as I didn't use her name in my post

LOL I refuse to believe that 1) Cheryl has got the girls and she would rather eat her own $h!t than have her little Mini-Me excluded from the line up 2) Half the country is bumming her, she has been all over daytime tv shows

We were puppets of Bush, whatever Bush did Blair would do so it was effectively Bush running this country so I would have said the same thing as Bush is a complete re****

Rightly so, the last boundary review favoured Labour heavily plus there is a small chance that the voting system that the Lib Dems want will be won in the referrendum

There are plenty of ways to generate money/ save money that the government should be exploring such as means testing benefits (initial increased bureaucracy yes), stripping huge chunks of waste out of the NHS, not replacing Trident, faster pullout of Iraq/Afghanistan, windfall taxes on thieving energy and oil companies, private companies taking over more services that the government provide, taxes on banks that pay excessive bonuses, those kind of things would make considerable inroads into the debt

We will see what happens in 5 years time Osborne and Cameron are not on a political suicide mission, they screw up this next 5 years the tories will be out of power till I am drawing my old age pension and they know that, they have spent years and years fighting to get where they are in the party and they would not sink their own party by screwing things up, they know what they are doing

There will be a double dip recession or at the very least stagnant growth in the next year or 2 but then when the debt is blitzed we will see the rewards in the form of sweeping tax cuts and tax cuts are the most important thing for me

Like I said many a time I do not have fancy degrees in economics but what I do is run a business that is doing reasonably well and spend hours daily communicating with business people and I would not be exaggerating when I say 9/10 BUSINESS people that I speak to (everything from small family run businesses to senior directors of giant corporates) agree that the debt is out of control and needs to be ruthlessly cut down to size

The amount of interest we are paying on this debt alone let alone beating the debt would pay for huge tax cuts I would rather see tax cuts as opposed to servicing a debt, it is criminal that money that could be spent elsewhere is instead earmarked for debt repayment, the priority should be to get rid of the debt entirely or at the very least get it down to a modest manageable level so that money can go on tax cuts. The billions that are going on debt repayment and debt interest could pay for a lot of schools, hospitals, police officers, tax cuts but instead it is just disappearing down a big black hole

I have no objection to gay marriage in principle but if indeed it is going to initially cost billions it should not be a high priority of this administration.

Another piece of good news that was not reported on here today till now, Britain has retained its Triple A credit rating along with a glowing report of it's plans to cut the deficit. I compare Britain to a cancer patient, the cancer being the overwhelming debt that this country is in, with cancer if the patient is going to survive then the cancer has to be blasted away with radiation/chemo and not allowed to fester or it will overwhelm the patient and eventually kill them, this debt is an economic cancer, without the radiotherapy to blast away the cancer (steep spending cuts) the cancer will grow and grow, the radiotherapy will stop the cancer in its tracks and the patient makes a full recovery, now as anyone knows radiotherapy/chemo has very nasty side effects and this next 2 years will be the equivalent of those side effects, painful, unpleasant but necessary for long term survival.

Our economy even with the cuts is tipped to grow more strongly in Q3 and Q4 than America and Japan in a report that was published on BJ recently The country can't spend what it hasn't got, the people and the government it is totally the right thing to zap the defecit Leaving the public sector alone and simply soaking the rich instead would be ridiculous, the public sector is top heavy with waste and over bureaucracy and too many layers of management it is utterly right to have a slimline public sector and a society where people can make their own decisions and run their own lives free from the nanny state. You only have to look at the SEVEN layers of management in the NHS to see that the public sector is a fat overblown beast and it is right to leave no stone unturned in streamlining the public sector I want to see a low tax low public spending society with a small public sector and people in control of their own lives