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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Eddie Hughes: Our valu... · 0 replies · +1 points

York is hardly blue collar, a small town, or a small city!

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our last pre-election ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Egregiously

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Steve Baker: Five tips... · 0 replies · +1 points

According to Steve...

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Steve Baker: Five tips... · 2 replies · +1 points

6. Always keep your mobile phone in the microwave. They never stop listening...

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - A sign of the times. T... · 3 replies · +1 points

What Mr Goodman is saying here is that women cannot be trusted to make informed moral decisions. I think this says more about him than it does about anything else.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Richard Patient: At la... · 0 replies · +1 points

Gosh - I remember Mr Patient when he used to drive his knackered old 2CV round South London off to Tory Reform Group meetings back in the 1990s. He’s obviously had a good old lurch to the right since then, for one reason or another.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Jesse Norman: The root... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is cobblers.

1. The supervisory system, as it applied to banking, was a function of the Basel reforms, not the New Labour government. Sure, there is some scope for national variation in the way it is applied. but since Basel II banks could essentially set their own capital requirements so long as they got their models approved. This is why banking leverage ratios went up globally - not just in the U.K. - during the 2000s.

2. On a more political note, does anyone really recall our own party clamouring for heavier bank regulation during the Blair era? Of course they don’t, because we didn’t. As an aside, one of the many undesirable likely outcomes of Brexit will be a round of financial sector deregulation in the UK, mark my words.

3. It is a myth to imagine that the regulatory reforms introduced in 2010 have made another financial crisis less likely. In fact, they have moved the source of dangerous lending from regulated businesses to unregulated ones. The consequences of this are still brewing.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Johnson's first... · 2 replies · +1 points

God, that was limp.

And we’ve stopped knowing how to spell programme.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - An open letter to Brex... · 1 reply · +1 points

Well, perhaps not the whole party.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Farage's decision send... · 0 replies · +1 points

Presumably he promised to die in a ditch (again).

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