brokencross
13-Oct-08, 07:25
In view of all this financial shenanigans going on with banks I was thinking about past quotes which will probably never hear again.
The now Right Honourable Gordon Brown, MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service, as Chancellor famously said:- "There will be no return to Boom and Bust"
Funnily enough we don't hear so much about his old girlfriend "Prudence" either.
And isn't it ironic that one of his first moves as Chancellor in 1997 was to make the Bank Of England independent from Government and yet now in 2008 some of the big banks are to be partially nationalised.
By the way, according to a money expert on the radio there is no such thing as partial nationalisation; he compared it to pregnancy........you are either pregnant or you are not....no inbetweenies.
The now Right Honourable Gordon Brown, MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service, as Chancellor famously said:- "There will be no return to Boom and Bust"
Funnily enough we don't hear so much about his old girlfriend "Prudence" either.
And isn't it ironic that one of his first moves as Chancellor in 1997 was to make the Bank Of England independent from Government and yet now in 2008 some of the big banks are to be partially nationalised.
By the way, according to a money expert on the radio there is no such thing as partial nationalisation; he compared it to pregnancy........you are either pregnant or you are not....no inbetweenies.