Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 300 DVA jobs lost in NI. We can't afford DVA staff. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26559144 Tories : cleaning up the mess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I can't see Twitter at work, but I was hoping for something a bit more concrete. A link to the FCA regs for example. Google it if you have time, Paul Lewis didn't provide a link. I did. There didn't seem to be anything else about it on the internet anywhere other than that one tweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I can't see Twitter at work, but I was hoping for something a bit more concrete. A link to the FCA regs for example.Google it if you have time, Paul Lewis didn't provide a link. I did. There didn't seem to be anything else about it on the internet anywhere other than that one tweet.Paul Lewis is usually spot on with these things. It's a testament to the great work this government are doing that payday loan companies are prospering. Tories : cleaning up the mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I can't see Twitter at work, but I was hoping for something a bit more concrete. A link to the FCA regs for example. Google it if you have time, Paul Lewis didn't provide a link. I did. There didn't seem to be anything else about it on the internet anywhere other than that one tweet. Something here. The change is that the number of rollovers is being limited to two, which limits extra charges. Lewis welcomes that in the article. But the government has refused to limit the interest rates which can be charged: Ms Swinson argued that imposing a cap on the rates of interest charged was unlikely to work. "One of the biggest problems is not the interest rate charges, it is people being given credit when they shouldn't be," she said. So what Lewis says in the tweet is correct, but the way it reads gives the impression the change is newly making it possible for companies to do this, when in fact it is making an improvement to the situation in respect of charges but failing to tackle interest rates because Ministers take the view expressed by Swinson. At least that's how I read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Well if one tweet constitutes informed debate, I'm going to start quoting Joey Barton. BTW, do you really need to put that cleaning up the mess bit in every post? You could just put it in your signtaure line if it means that much to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Oh, and there was me thinking it was bad news... Tories : cleaning up the mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I can't see Twitter at work, but I was hoping for something a bit more concrete. A link to the FCA regs for example. Google it if you have time, Paul Lewis didn't provide a link. I did. There didn't seem to be anything else about it on the internet anywhere other than that one tweet. Something here. The change is that the number of rollovers is being limited to two, which limits extra charges. Lewis welcomes that in the article. But the government has refused to limit the interest rates which can be charged: Ms Swinson argued that imposing a cap on the rates of interest charged was unlikely to work. "One of the biggest problems is not the interest rate charges, it is people being given credit when they shouldn't be," she said. So what Lewis says in the tweet is correct, but the way it reads gives the impression the change is newly making it possible for companies to do this, when in fact it is making an improvement to the situation in respect of charges but failing to tackle interest rates because Ministers take the view expressed by Swinson. At least that's how I read it. The way the tweet is written is that the FCA (and presumably, by extension, the nasty governmet) are allowing the child-snatching loan sharks to lend somebody £100, then send two bruisers round (with planks of wood with nails in I expect) to collect £200 within 90 days. The reality is, as you helpfully point out, is that the FCA appears to be doing its best to restrict what the pay day loan companies can actually do, and in some albeit probably small way, make things slightly better than they currently are. One tweet with its restricted word count isn't really enough to debate the point properly, but that's the way the left seem to like to debate things these days, with tweets and ridiculous Facebook memes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Oh, and there was me thinking it was bad news... If you're the sort of person who gets their info from Twitter, I expect you probably would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Why the personal attack? I don't get it. You're a weirdo. Anyway. Remember when Brian May said the badger cull wouldn't work, and the government said 'of course it will!' ...well guess what. Maybe we should have a load of old rockers running the country. Tories : cleaning up the mess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Cleaning up the mess, one rotten nurse at a time.Pay cuts for nurses, bonuses for bankers. Tories : cleaning up the mess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Why can't you put your 'mess' comment in your signature (so at least people can ignore it and can still read your posts)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I wish I had some tories to sort out the garage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The house just voted to stop the badger cull. Government response? They're going to carry on regardless. That's our democracy at work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The house just voted to stop the badger cull. Government response? They're going to carry on regardless. That's our democracy at work. I'm not being funny, but other than farmers, (and, presumably the badgers), who cares? How does that rank on the scale of the country's immediate problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The house just voted to stop the badger cull. Government response? They're going to carry on regardless. That's our democracy at work. I'm not being funny, but other than farmers, (and, presumably the badgers), who cares? How does that rank on the scale of the country's immediate problems? Yeah, wot does the envoiromunt matta, f-em'!(Please stop posting the Tories/mess comment on every post) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetrees Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The house just voted to stop the badger cull. Government response? They're going to carry on regardless. That's our democracy at work. I'm not being funny, but other than farmers, (and, presumably the badgers), who cares? How does that rank on the scale of the country's immediate problems? I think that you will find that to certain elements of our society badgers and foxes are a hell of a lot more important than managing the economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The house just voted to stop the badger cull. Government response? They're going to carry on regardless. That's our democracy at work. I'm not being funny, but other than farmers, (and, presumably the badgers), who cares? How does that rank on the scale of the country's immediate problems? I think that you will find that to certain elements of our society badgers and foxes are a hell of a lot more important than managing the economy.Farmers want TB spread controlled as they say its harming their industry. So it is about the economy. Fox hunting was a separate issue at the heart of many sections of society across the political and social spectrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 fox hunting was about class, nothing else 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The house just voted to stop the badger cull. Government response? They're going to carry on regardless. That's our democracy at work. I'm not being funny, but other than farmers, (and, presumably the badgers), who cares? How does that rank on the scale of the country's immediate problems? I think that you will find that to certain elements of our society badgers and foxes are a hell of a lot more important than managing the economy. You mean tories? They seem to think removing the ban on Fox hunting should be a priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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