>> ^Xaielao:
Sounds awfully familiar and similar to what happened here in the US. But then I realize.. these are virtually the 'people' who did the same thing a few years ago here. Maybe the EU leaders will have the balls to teach some of them a lesson instead of bowing and prostrating like our leaders did.


What happened back in 2008 happened pretty much throughout the world, it wasn't confined to the US. EU banks were bailed out by the bucketload!

What's happened this time round is that Barclays Bank has been caught up in 3 major scandals all in relatively quick succession, and politicians are finally having to make noises and pretend that they're doing something about it. We'll see if it's more than just noise in the coming months, but somehow I doubt we're going to see any heavy-handed approach from the UK's current ConDem political alliance.

Edit: Tony Robinson isn't a politician, he's just an intelligent guy who's able to say what he really feels, unlike politicians who can't say anything without pissing off someone!

>> ^renatojj:

Bankers were given powers they shouldn't have and they abused them. They were given money they shouldn't have access to and they squandered it and rewarded themselves. Central banks were established with monopolistic power over the monetary system, and they're destroying the money supply and enabling massive debts with impossibly low interest rates.
When are we going to blame the bastards who gave them these powers in the first place?
Corporations = capitalism/evil
Government = the tool liberals need to accomplish socialism
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to find the real culprit, but liberals will go as far as blaming corporations and not look an inch further, because that would mean blaming government... no, that's not allowed.


that's a weird new username you got there, qm.

>> ^renatojj:

@vaire2ube tell you what, hand over the overwhelming power government gave to bankers to someone else, say farmers, workers, teachers, nuns, it doesn't matter, it will be abused eventually and social injustice will happen in a large scale. Will you be hating on nuns too for screwing up the country's finances?
Bravo, sir. I don't think I've seen a trainwreck that went off the rails as spectacularly as this little bit of (il)logical gymnastics.

Bravo Tony Robinson!

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*promote

Cheers

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And Tony Robinson is still hilarious, now he has a show called "Time Team" which is like a digging show in search for British history. I don't know how many Roman castles they've found.

It's the position that these people hold that scares me. Like Tony Robinson is saying, we can't ignore these people. It is such a selfish state of mind. In fact I'm furious, how dare they force these destructive believes on people. Even if you don't believe you are affected......... selfish, if I was religious, I would say UN-god-worthy

A video featuring a young, pretty and gormless Hugh Laurie? *fans self* I may have to take a moment here.

(Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson were quite fine, too. But I have my priorities.)