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Suntan Sid
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PostPosted: 18:34 - 09 Mar 2015    Post subject: Banker in weasel words shocker! Reply with quote
From the BBC here:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31799405

The cheif executive of HSBC claimed:-

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During testimony in front of MP's on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Mr Gulliver blamed "media innuendo" for the damage.


Oh dear, the very same HSBC who threatened both The Telegraph and The Guardian that if they prInted negative stories about HSBC they'd pull their hefty advertising accounts.

Unfuckinbelievable, these people are utterly, shameless, slippery, bastards!

For anyone interested, I suggest you search for "Peter Oborne HSBC" to find out why he resigned from the Telegraph!
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PostPosted: 18:53 - 09 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bankers, only assholes more money greedy than MP's Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:59 - 09 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
The BBC, spending almost 90% of it's newspaper recruitment advertising in the Gurnaid, obviously keeps this story unbiased! Smile


Not absolutely everything is a left wing conspiracy you know..

Oh, and its 'Grauniad', for some reason seeing you spelling it incorrectly constantly irks me more than it should... Its almost as though you don't get the joke...

EDIT: And I know you don't agree, but isn't it a good thing to have an establishment that is not reliant on the whims of advertisers for funding ?
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PostPosted: 23:27 - 09 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was listening to some of that on the radio.

The Chairwoman did herself no favours. At one point she resorted to hypersonic shrieking at and harrangueing of one of the people she was questioning in a highly irritiating and petulant Janet Street-Porter fashion.

If it were me and someone started whining and skirling at me like that. I would excuse myself and leave, telling them I'd come back in 20 minutes when they'd calmed down and felt able to ask me specific questions in a calm and rational tone of voice.

Yes, even if it was the chair of a parliamentary select comittee.
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PostPosted: 23:52 - 09 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
The BBC, spending almost 90% of it's newspaper recruitment advertising in the Gurnaid, obviously keeps this story unbiased! Smile


WTF has, supposed, BBC bias got to do with what is reported in the link I posted, FFS?

What Mr Gulliver said, in front of a parliamentary special comittee, is not up for debate, it is a matter of record, FFS! There is no biased reporting, no spin, no editorial policy, that is what was said, jeez he was on the radio saying it, that's where I heard him saying it, before I read the article!

Mr Gulliver is claiming "media innuendo" is harming his bank!
This is the very same bank that threatened two national, broadsheet newspapers, with the removal of advertising revenue if they printed negative stuff about HSBC!
For the record, the Telegraph succumbed to the demands only relenting after a week, when it printed a tiny, one paragraph, non commital article!

If you can get over your own, obvious, bias, here is the article Peter Oborne wrote about his reasons for resigning from the Telegraph.
That's Peter Oborne of the TELEGRAPH, FFS, not one of those lefty, pinko, fags, you seem to fantasise about!

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph

Here's a gift, you can use it when you get down off that high horse you're sitting on!

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PostPosted: 09:06 - 10 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Breaking News. The Canaanite are on the move again.

I stopped reading many of the bike magazines because year after year the same stuff was being printed just a different colour. It is the same with the Banks now.

What shall I do now with the information? Just get stressed? Riot? Kill?
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PostPosted: 09:55 - 10 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
What shall I do now with the information?

Eschew it.

Nothing changes except the faces, so why stress over it?
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PostPosted: 10:03 - 10 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
the anti-banker campaign is generally driven by the left wing biased media.

At the moment, it's been driven by some shrieking harridan who's also laying into the BBC trust. It's almost as though she's playing to some sort of public gallery in order to appear populist, although I can't imagine wh... oh, right.
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PostPosted: 15:06 - 10 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Fair enough it was a bit tenuous, but the anti-banker campaign is generally driven by the left wing biased media.


Please assure me you read the Peter Oborne article I linked to.
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PostPosted: 16:03 - 10 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's a big reason people want to be rich, so they can be "shameless slippery bastards" that's what the Tories dangle in front of peoples noses, "vote for us and you too can join our gang and be a self serving couldent give a shit rich person".
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PostPosted: 09:51 - 11 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:

And Milliband and Balls dangle what then?


Correct, balls dangle.
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PostPosted: 12:49 - 11 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Boozehawk wrote:
That's a big reason people want to be rich, so they can be "shameless slippery bastards" that's what the Tories dangle in front of peoples noses, "vote for us and you too can join our gang and be a self serving couldent give a shit rich person".


And Milliband and Balls dangle what then?


Vote for us and you can pretend you give a shit?
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PostPosted: 21:07 - 19 Mar 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
For anyone interested in the shenanagans at the Telegraph, how HSBC used their muscle to influence editirial content and why Peter Oborne resigned, have a Listen to R4's "The Report", from earlier this evening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055jslq

The weasel worded statement, from the Telegraph, (they refused to take part in the program), towards the end of the program says it all!
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