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Walsall and Oldham.

Still, some exiles and coffin dodgers will be delighted at the prospect of Pardew going.

With the investment banks I'm talking about limiting their size (this is the current US view on them) as they've become so big nations can't afford to let them fail.

It does indeed. It also says that it will have to be put to a referendum as UK law would need to be changed. I don't think you're uncovered a hidden story I'm afraid.

The tories will win, that's what the polls are saying.

They are way, way more scientific now. They got a spanking in 1992 and re-modelled everything.

But, IIRC, they've always said that they would want us to go into the Euro but ultimately it would have to be decided by a referendum. I don't think anything has really changed on that front.

Sorry, should have explained myself better. By big I mean investment banks like Goldman Sachs and the like. HBOS needed a buyer that had both retail and investment arms so the choices were limited.

The main voices in the sector, across the globe disagree. Some are so big that countries can't risk them failing and so they know they have a safety net. Santander seperate their retail from investment and it's a good model. The main investment banks in The City have a net worth greater than our GDP according to Moneybox on R4

What would that be then considering it's not be raised before on here. What have you discerned that others have missed?

With a government as unpopular as this one I had expected Ordinary Dave to storm away with it. The fact that he hasn't says its own story about the populations views of the tories. They'll win the election but have a genuine large mandate? Don't think so. The sitting government always get 1st crack at forming a new one BTW.

Economy, immigration, Afghanistan. The BS hasn't even registered on the most savvy of my faculty.

One thing is clear so far in this election campaign and that is that the main two parties are held in absolute disdain by the vast majority of the population. Brown is disliked more than seems possible and yet Cameron and the tories are looking at a hung parliament. People don't believe Labour nor Conservative.

The banks are too big, this is obvious. How we deal with it is less so. Also, we should seperate the retail banking system from the investment arms but again, how this is done is less than obvious.

I've never really thought about that. Has our fleet diminished whilst others have grown I wonder?

Your welcome you neo-nazi scumbag.

As long as the pots and kettles aren't black. Stanley wouldn't like that.

No claim about in Stanley. Some of us have good careers and some of us are neo-nazi bigots.

Are you being thick on purpose? We'd have to trade with the EU using their rules but we wouldn't have the expense of being in the EU. Sounds just about perfect.

Perfectly put.

LOL. Clueless nazi mong.

Sorry Mr Bognor, I meant Lloyds. Barclays advert on the TV as I typed. Who said advertising doesn't get to you when it's in the background.

That is some of the most bizarre economic reasoning I've come across in a very long time.

You what? It's that call, supported by senior sensible tories, that stopped us making Greece looked successful! We are already in profit regarding the value of Barclays shares and in time HBOS will be the same. Letting them fail wasn't an option (part of me wanted them to fail so the smug, smary banking fooookers would really suffer).

You do understand that this supports the "in Europe, not in the EU" argument don't you? In fact, the Norwegian model is perfect for us.