I'm more intrigued by the theory suggesting that Standee's avatar is a picture of his face. An unusual looking bloke.

Don't be daft, Standee doesn't have a heart.

Or I should at least say he does in real life, but pretends he doesn't on Sin Bin. That sounds more like it.

I have a heart everywhere, I just choose who I actually care about quite carefully.

Anyway, back to everything being the governments fault, I am sure Minty will link to something deep and meaningful that someone else has written shortly, she might even throw in a fancy word in an effort to eleveate herslef above the mere mortals on here.

Please point us in the direction on this thread where its been mentioned that Comet closing is the governments fault?

Yeah I know you have a heart and I know you choose who you care about carefully. Thats why you carefully slag fans groups off on here, then in the next breath pm and tell them carefully that they do a great job and offer to sponsor them.

You see I can show a different side to you too

No it isn't, I'm surprised that you suggest that it is.

We already have growth, always room for more though

Standee, I'm sure you can get help for those chips.

You can plan all the investment you want but if the banks will not lend the money you cannot speculate to accumulate. Don't blame the Tories - Labour were in power for many years before the banking crisis happened.

Which is a good point.



I'm sure that you can point to the post, in this thread (context) where I have.

Remind me again, how much of these banks do we own?

Remind us again what the governement have told the banks to do - increase their capital bases, not take risks, comply with new regulation. The government do not want them to lend - they just make noises for the benefit of the electorate.

You are, without doubt, the least self-aware person I have ever come across. Absolutely astonishing.

Shame that Jessops has gone under. Always liked them.

Of the whole banking sector in the UK a very small amount - can you imagine the uproar there would be if either of the government banks ended up with huge losses on the back of very risky lending?

One thing that doesn't seem to get much press is the number of businesses banks are keeping going that should have gone. If this happened it would clear the way for the well run businesses to make progress.

You mean that if we clear the decks of all businesses run on an overdraft and with loans and leases for equipment and modernisation, then the UK economy would be just hunky-dory and we wouldn't all be out of jobs at all ?