Wednesday 10 September 2014

Financial Services

Lloyds and RBS - RBS! - are to move their headquarters to London in the event of a Yes vote. Much of Standard Life would also leave Scotland "the day after the referendum" if that had been its result. Just as well that it is not going to be.

Meanwhile, the European Commission has created a Portfolio for Financial Services specifically in order to give it to Lord Hill, who is a former Cabinet Minister, Political Secretary to the Prime Minister (John Major, who won a General Election) and Head of the Downing Street Policy Unit.

But he is allegedly a nobody because, as a protégé of Ken Clarke, he came up through the Conservative Party rather than through its semi-detached Outer Right fringe.

A spoof advertisement depicting Douglas Carswell is doing the rounds, inviting "failed Tories" to join UKIP on the grounds that "We are all failed Tories here".

UKIP's Deputy Leader turns out to be a columnist on the Daily Sport. Will he be billed as such when next he appears on Newsnight, The Daily Politics, Any Questions or Question Time? If not, why not?

Whereas "Lord Who?" has gone straight from the Cabinet to being the European Commissioner for Financial Services, a position created especially for him.

Has there ever been a proper history of the Tory Left? After all, it is, it always has been, and it always will be the Conservative Party's mainstream. And that party, like Labour, will always have at least 200 MPs, one third of the House of Commons.

4 comments:

  1. Six point Labour lead over the Tories is still there in the YouGov poll tonight. Ukip are down two, if it matters.

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  2. And Clydesdale now. As you know, Lloyds takes Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows with it. This was never "scaremongering". This is huge.

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  3. Major banks trying to blackmail the electorate to get their own way.

    Lindsay would usually be against it.

    I won't work on the Scots, though. Any more than the attempted blackmail over the pound and the bunch of other billionaires threatening to move South.

    They don't put up with millionaires blackmailing them. Nor should they.

    Scotland's attitude is "good riddance".

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    1. I won't work on the Scots, though.

      Indeed, you won't.

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