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cantankerous has previously reported the growing anger of the Irish government with RBS. In an unusually candid statement issued yesterday, Ireland’s central bank has expressed its growing impatience with the continuing and unresolved RBS IT fiasco: 28 June 2012 The Central Bank of Ireland is concerned by the unacceptable continuing delays by Ulster Bank in fully resolving its systems [...] At last, a mainstream broadcaster begins to question the RBS PR spin that the NatWest and Ulster Bank fiasco, still not over, has nothing to do with its sacking of hundreds of experienced and highly-qualified UK staff as part of its massive outsourcing and offshoring strategy. cantankerous has already exposed how overnight batch support was moved abroad with [...] Iain Duncan-Smith is taking an awful lot of flak from bishops, the liberal media elite and hand-wringing Liberals, such as Paddy Ashdown, about his plans to cap benefits at the median take-home wage of working families – £26,000 per year. Why have we become trapped by this materialistic concept of child poverty, itself a remnant of [...] The NHS has just announced that an astonishing £11.8 billion has been wasted on the National Project for IT – otherwise known as the failed attempt to computerise medical records. In addition, it has suddenly been ‘realised’ by NHS Trusts all over the country that their fantastic PFI deals are actually crap and unaffordable. How can [...] Despite creating Fiscal Fantasy Island with thousands of overpaid non-jobs, quangocrats and special advisers over the last thirteen years, this Labour Government can’t even pay its own cleaners at the Treasury a living wage, forcing 14-year-old Tiari Sanchez’s family to live on a diet of lentils. Watch the heartbreaking [...]
Reuters reports Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, as telling fellow economist David Hale: whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be Mervyn King tells the truth The economically literate have long known that we are living [...]
How much sympathy now? Cantankerous was stopped this morning by a fireman protesting at proposals to cut a fire engine from the local fire station. The fireman said the cut primarily risks public safety; secondly, jobs are threatened. Of course, the historic willingness of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to strike shows that [...] Barney Reynolds, despite being a partner of a Legal 500 law firm, Shearman & Sterling LLP, and sharing a prestigious alma mater with cantankerous, just doesn’t get it. Commenting in the FT today on Lord Turner’s demands that global policymakers should examine financial transaction taxes and even tougher capital requirements for banks that trade for their [...] |
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