Chin Strain

I can see your point.....but then the footballers sod off to Spain, and the bankers (or any other high earner) sod off to Switzerland. So, you get 60% tax of nothing. It's a fine line, and whether you like it or not, this country needs the banking industry to be a success. Oh, and by the way, the UK taxpayer only bailed out some very poorly run banks. Well run banks didn't need assistance.

That's the point though. Someone gets a £250k bonus. The tax on that pays for 5 nurses or 2 doctors or 4 fireman for a year. Call that ****ed up if you like but it's reality. Sure, bin the bonus culture...who's going to pay for the 5 nurses or 2 doctors or 4 fireman for the year. Reality.

That would seem to be the long and short of it.

They can't redress the balance without these so called greedy bankers (please define what you mean by this term) or any other person that earns a huge wedge of money - because they're paid for by tax payers. 20% of the population pays 80% of the tax. Whether you like it or not, banking is a uk industry. It's one of the biggest employers in the country. If the banks go overseas,who will fill the void in the tax paid? There are people in lots of industries that earn lots of money. the term greedy 'Bankers' is a populist term that nobody seems to be able to define. There are more greedy footballers and greedy politicians than there are greedy bankers. Hell,there are more greedy consumers!

Like I say, easy to say nurses, doctors, policeman, fireman, armed forces do proper jobs and are the most important. Sure they do. I agree - it is an important job. So, in your world, do you make them the highest earners? That was the question. What about footballers who work 5 minutes a day for £75k a week? The point is lots of people contribute to society in one way or another doing important jobs.

Confirmed. You know Jack **** about the industry.

Complete tosh. I think you'll find that without banks your pension fund would look considerably poorer - do you seriously think there's no place for investments in this world? Where do you think the money comes for your mortgage?

That's such a crap line, so I've corrected it for you. For banker (whatever you care to define that as), read racing driver, footballer, cricketer, architect, author, or anyone else that gets paid a lot more than a nurse or policeman. You can't benchmark everyone against nurses and policeman - where do you stop? Do we make nurses and policeman the highest paid people in the country?

Mate, you really are some kind of idiot trotting out that line. What do you define as a proper job, and explain why a bank worker (or however you care to define 'greedy banker') doesn't do a proper job. I'm guessing that you actually know jack **** about the industry.

Are you Peter Storrie or Andronikou?

Stupid generally

I wondered how long it would take for someone to trot out that line. Can you define the populist term 'Greedy Banker' please? Tell me, ever consider that there are irresponsible consumers? Greedy consumers trying to live life on the never never, happy to take a punt on that 'investment property' 2 bed flat in Ocean Village for £300k because it'll go up in value and they'll make a killing. Suddenly it's not so funny when (surprise, surprise) you can't get £2k a month rent, and it's only worth £750. Oops. Sure, banks were lending too much......but maybe consumers were borrowing too much. Nobody makes people buy a 42" telly, new car, 2nd home etc, etc. People don't have to 'keep up with the Jones's'. Personal responsibility. That is all.

...and the similarities are......?

:lol:Made me laugh

Nah, Adkins will either walk or run down his contract if he feels Scunny are being unreasonable. Any loyalty will go west.

Mate, you're just being ridiculous. 1. You don't know that Howe was offered the job 2. Basic common sense, let alone business sense, tells you that you don't pay stupidly over the odds for anything (as it sounds like is the case) 3. Saints have played this straight down the line - Adkins said so 4. If Saints asked him to leave without compensation sorted How about waiting for some facts because, as far as I can see, only point 3 is a fact that neither Scunny or Saints have argued with.

Feck...if that's true, i think a few on here would possibly change their opinion on our stance, and NC. That is absolutely crazy if it's true.

Jeez, you've obviously got Cortese's ear as you know it's a stupid decision to get rid of Pardew. Please tell all us menials.....

TBF he probably had the hump that he was second choice. Not convinced the chairman wasn't telling a few porkies either - I suspect it makes him / Howe look good.

Sometimes he really can't win though. He came out in May and made a statement (no lack of info there), which I think was the right thing to do because of the frenzy of rumours. If he hadn't there would have been people on here queuing up to bash him over the head. So what if the relationship wasn't great up until then. They're professionals and drew a line under last season and moved on. If AP was sacked for what has been rumoured then I think NC was absolutely right. If he was sacked based on results I think NC was absolutely wrong. The point is, we just don't know, and may never know due to contractual arrangements.

Do you know, factually, why he was sacked then? Ever considered that something may have changed since May? He wasn't sacked in May, he was sacked 4 months later for reasonsd that pretty much nobody on here can say for sure.

+1.

Yeah...if true. When NC comes out and says that was the reason, then fine, let rip. However, 'reported' on South Today (they're always right, after all) doesn't equal fact. FFS this is all ludicrous.