Northern Rock loan: Are you worried?
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Northern Rock loan: Are you worried?
Does it concern you that a major mortgage lender has to get a loan from the Bank of England?
UK markets have been hit by the decision by the Bank of England to give emergency financial support to the Northern Rock.
But experts say the company is a "very sound" and not in danger of going bust.
Northern Rock has struggled to raise money to finance lending since the summer's financial crisis which began with problems over US sub-prime loans.
Do you work for Northern Rock? Are you a customer? If so, will you listen to expert advice and still feel "confident" in the company? Is this a sign of worse to come?
Read the main story
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Of course not, and anyone who claims to be is just plain silly :)
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When I was looking for mortgages last year, Northern Rock were willing to lend me and my partner over 5 times our joint income. This would have given us totally unaffordable repayments.
I believe that if lenders are this irresponsible, they should be cracked down on and prevented from operating. Not rely on support from the government. If Northern Rock want to expand and lend large amounts, they should have the means to do so.
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For Chancellor Darling to start lecturing financial institutions about prudence is about as valid as a prostitute recommending celibacy and restraint. New Labour is still socialist-communist in outlook. The past 10 years of the Liar blair and the Thief brown administration, so called prudence but really spelt and meant as profligacy has seen 'nolongerthe' UK savings of the populance fall away to very low levels as a crook government has squandered wealth and run up a huge deficit.
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"Never a Borrower or Lender Be"
Moneylenders are the lowest form of life - and should removed from society.
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Moneylenders are the lowest form of life - and should removed from society.
steve french, London, United Kingdom
No, Steve, you're wrong.
Moneylenders are the second lowest form of life as they actually fullfil a demand.
The lowest form of life are those that post stupid and ignorant comments because they're so far up themselves that they believe what they write.
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"Never a Borrower or Lender Be"
Moneylenders are the lowest form of life - and should removed from society.
steve french, London, United Kingdom
It's funny that our leaders like to show off their 'christian morality', yet they lie in bed with these people. Didn't Jesus go around kicking these guys?
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Sorry - I couldn't care less about Northern Rock.
After TEN YEARS of NEW LABOUR RULE and STEALTH TAXES I'm Completely skint.
They have wrecked this country and the Northern Rock affair is all part of it.
Jonathan Evans
Newport
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This is the manifestation of much careless lending.
If were a NR investor, I would want my cash out!
Just about anyone can find a bent financial advisor to arrange them a bent mortgage which they cant really afford. This has been going on for years, and the banks must have known this!
The UK housing market has been inflated by all this phoney money, and now it looks like the valve is leaking, and there will be a massive collective farting noise as the housing market deflates!
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CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! - Panic buying in the shops!, collect as much water as you can!, gas and electricity may be cut off!. Anarchy as armed police desperatly try to control the mob. French gun boats patrol the channel against waves of immigrants from the UK. - We're all DOOMED!
(My impersonation of a BBC reporter)
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I AM A SAVER WITH NORTHERN ROCK AND HAVE NOT TRIED TO WITHDRAW MY MONEY. I HAVE JUST FOUND OUT THAT DEREK WANLESS IS A DIRECTOR.
HE WAS THE MAN WHO RAN NATWEST BANK WHICH WAS THE BIGGEST BANK IN THE U.K. IT HAD TO BE SOLD OF TO A SCOTTISH BANK BY THE TIME HE LEFT.
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Reid is going after nine jobs. jack of all trades AND master of none. Leaving a sinking ship.
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Dear remaining Northern Rock Customers
My client would like your help to move £10,000,000 from xx-insert any african state-xx because of xx-insert random hard luck story-xx.
Please send your account details to me@random_isp.com
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I never thought I would live to see the day when dozens of supposedly'rational'adult savers would line up outside northern rock like so many mindless lemmings,hurling themselves off cliffs in their frenzy to remove their savings,in the face of so much overwhelming evidence that there is no risk to their savings!!!...judging from the visibly predominant age group of those queing,my suspicion is that early onset dementia could be playing a large part in this behaviour,as logic certainly is'nt!!
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The Northern Rock Stock is going to go down on Monday. It would be prudent to sell your stock as we don't know what market forces hold on Monday.
The Bank according to reports today is considering a sell off. That is re assuring for customers isn't it?
Well I wouldn't be surprised if there is a takeover bid by the end of the week -after the stock drops to £1.50 TO £2.00 per share.
Well, it looks like we are in the beginning of a recession.
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A friend of mine works for the Northern Rock in their IT section for online banking. Apparently they have been told to deliberately limit access to online accounts in an attempt to stop customers withdrawing their cash. It could be possible NR will be unable to repay all of its customers.
Gordon Brown should be held responsible, Labour have encouraged an economy based on inflated house prices and consumer debt. Now the greedy banks are losing out due to bad debt. We shouldn’t be surprised.
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I suggest that everyone borrows as much as they can, don't bother saving and most certainly don't try saving the world because it all ends in 20012.
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"ha, ha. You wait and see Graham!
Robert Taylor, Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom"
You REALLY believe this will recover??? Bear in mind there will be more queues next week when people remove their cash, plus all the postal & internet transactions yet to be counted...
Still, people like you (opportunists/vultures) obviously have more money than sense so go ahead - see how much you lose.
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TO THE BBC INSTEAD OF SLATING NORTHERN ROCK FURTHER HOW ABOUT YOU START WITH ALL THE OTHER BANKS IN EXACTLY THE SAME POSITION. NORTHERN ROCK HAVE NOT USED THEIR B OF E LOAN. OTHER BANKS HAVE ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION. THERE ARE ALSO OTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN A B OF E LOAN. TIME TO CHANGE YOUR NEGATIVE REPORTING FROM NORTHERN ROCK TO ANOTHER. I'M SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS GIVEN TO NORTHERN ROCK , YOU HAVE NOT SAID ANYTHING POSITIVE OR REPORTED ON OTHER BANKS!!!
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The only things which worry me about the whole situation are the headless-chicken attitude of the Northern Rock customers, and the irresponsible reporting of Robert Peston and the other BBC business correspondents. Those two things will bring the bank down. Peston and his cohorts should be sued by the bank.
[HonestKeithB], Aylesbury, United Kingdom
Its not irresponible bankers (with a capital "W") then?
Are you a banker?
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Message to HonestKeithB, Aylesbury, United
My use of capital letters for me is shouting my opinion.
One other this debate is about the current banking situation not whether people are using capitals or not.
The last time I type a note on here I used a keyboard not crayons?
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My use of capital letters for me is shouting my opinion.
One other this debate is about the current banking situation not whether people are using capitals or not.
The last time I type a note on here I used a keyboard not crayons?
E A, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
LEARN GRAMMAR!
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I'm not particularly religeous or anything, but having read "White Dog"'s cheap shot at eligron for no particular reason (other than attention seeking), I'd like to take the time before this comment is justifiably removed to point out that White Dog is a worthless idiot, and that the solution to poverty might be to sell him and others like him as slaves, using the profit to help the poor.
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Proverbs 22:7
The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.
Yep and we could all save up for 25 years and buy our £200k houses. Perhaps the answer would be to build homes over all those churches that nobody goes to?
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Isn't slavery wrong? However, don't Christians make good slaves?
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you've never had it so good. house prices to drop by up to 75% over next five years.
2008 global financial meltdown.
2009 peak oil leads to $150 per barrel in global bidding war, food prices go through the stratosphere.
as the song goes, it can only get better.
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UK:
Alliance & Leicester
Bradford & Bingley
Barclays
Halifax
US:
Goldman
Bear
Citigroup
Lehman
form an orderly que please, next
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Tell people there will be electricity cuts in the next 2 days and the supermarkets will fill within minutes of loony Brits panic buying bread beans and bog roll.
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Instead of a vote on under-age underweight models, lets have a vote on the slanted, biased, illinformed, unprofessional coverage by the BBC. I expect more of Autie BEEB - some honesty from the outset for instance.
This coverage has blatently sought to create lazy news, breeding on the understandable insecurity of savers.
How confident would the Governors be to have an open inquiry about the objectiveness of the coverage. THE IMPACT ON THE N-E ECONOMY WILL BE WITH US FOR YEARS!
Proud???
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MATTHEW 21:12/13
'AND HE CAST THE THIEVES OUT'
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DON'T tell people you've put your savings in a tin box at home !!! - I searched your name and location, on directory enquiries, you are the only person in that location and I now have your address. If I was a criminal I would be round your house tonight and take your tin box !!!! - A simple search with the information you placed on this website and you are a victim or crime. BBC, stop showing this type of information, you will be liable !!!
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i think dundee will win the league
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Our economy in the UK is based on services. We don't manufacture our own good nearly enough as we should be doing.
Global warming is basically one huge conspiracy to put a halt to China and India's industrial revolutionary growth which is overtaking the world.
Yes, they must be curbed to ensure the rest of the world doesn't suffer economically.
And the culprits are those who import and use these cheap services/labour - exploitation to increase their own wealth whilst majority suffer.
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I am a NR saver and have not removed my savings reasons are:
1) The government will underwrite the costs and refund savings through another bank if NR did collapse.
2) the media has played a major part in sending NR customers into a blind panic using words like 'bank crisis' is irresponsible.
3) NR will recover and in the worst case senario the government would order another bank to take over NR operations
So for christ's sake everyone calm down!
Charles Woods
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Clearly there are many NR shareholders posting here who are telling everyone to buy up NR shares in an attempt to try and keep their personal losses to a minimum.
My advice to shareholders posting here is SELL your shares right now and simply cut your losses. You had your chance weeks ago to sell without losing but your greed kept you in there . My advice to anyone considering buying is DONT.
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Northern Rock is not acting properly with consumers: they are deliberately switching off phone and fax lines and the website to prevent customers to withdraw money; since they have only a few branches people who cannot get hold of them by the usual means are desperately sieging the few agencies. Government and financial agencies should ensure that Northern Rock will open the lines and website otherwise more panic will ensue to the rest of the customers at the sight of huge queues &street chaos
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In the words of one of my Co-Workers just now
"You cant base an economy on a bunch of grotty little essex boys moving money from one place to another on a TV screen"
That sums up the British economy over the last 10 years.
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You cant base an economy on a bunch of grotty little essex boys moving money from one place to another on a TV screen"
That sums up the British economy over the last 10 years.
Off Egg, London, United Kingdom
I disagree. The economy over the last ten years has been built on people borrowing over and above their ability to repay. You cannot base an economy on that but it is not just a UK issue, it's global.
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"Before you rush off to grab your money from the bank just remember the CARPETBAGGERS of the old wild west. Someone is going to make BAGS of money out off panic decisions while you loose. Those in the game of investment know that sometimes it is best to sit tight and wait."
I suggest you rush off to the bookshop and buy a dictionary!
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I'm sorry but I have to ask the question, how do such monumentally stupid people as seen queueing this week get such large sums of money ???
I can only assume bingo or scratchcard winnings!
M Morgan, Merseyside
If that was your money I'm sure you'd be at the front of the que. Who are you to judge what people do with their life savings?
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Labour this, Labour that. Anyone would think the Tories did great things in power.....
[Duderoo], Gods own county, United Kingdom
Another person who thinks we are still in the late 1980s. It's time to deal with the problems that the Labour Government have created since being elected. That's a decade ago just in case you've forgotten. More than enough time to showcase their brilliance; or indeed lack of it. They've built an economy built mostly on debt.
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Although i strongly believe in democracy, i would raise no objection if Americans were banned from contributing to HYS as they talk complete bull and i find their attitude offensive.
Broken Arrow, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
I dare say that they would have no objection to you being banned either.
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Bought a few thousand shares in NR yesterday afternoon, just made a sensible profit on some of them, will sell the rest tomorrow.
Tio Terry, Epsom, United Kingdom
Hmm...you sound like a money-for-nothing layabout to me....did you enter the country illegaly????
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"Hmm...you sound like a money-for-nothing layabout to me....did you enter the country illegaly????
[ukblahblahblacksheep], Brighton, United Kingdom "
And whats wrong with that? he see an oppurtuntiy and took it.. others have done the same, had i had the funds i would have aswell as im sure you would have!
Hmm or is that! you did'nt think of it and are now a little green?
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"Tio Terry, Epsom, United Kingdom
Hmm...you sound like a money-for-nothing layabout to me....did you enter the country illegaly????
[ukblahblahblacksheep], Brighton, United Kingdom"
Born Norwich, Norfolk, 1949, father a Policeman. Entered full time employment at age 15, never been unemployed, still working some 43 years later. 27 days certified illness in 43 years. What I have I have earnt, mortgage paid, no debts. But I can spot an opportunity - and you all had it - what about you?
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MODERATORS -
You rejected my last post. Which house rule did I break?
I challenge you to respond.
Otherwise I will have to assume that there is an unwritten house rule that the Moderator has a right to reject postings that do not agree with his/her political views...
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If only you knew how many senior NR execs have bought personal shares you'd be shocked! (Wife works there and I've seen the internal memos). Even Freddie Sheppard has bought a few million.
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Born Norwich, Norfolk, 1949, father a Policeman. Entered full time employment at age 15, never been unemployed, still working some 43 years later. 27 days certified illness in 43 years. What I have I have earnt, mortgage paid, no debts. But I can spot an opportunity - and you all had it - what about you?
Tio Terry, Epsom, United Kingdom
You sound a bit bitter to me....glad you had some success at last.
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My reaction? buy some NR shares of course - what else?
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
Good to see you back Mr Sharr, Sir.
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" My reaction? buy some NR shares of course - what else?
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
Good to see you back Mr Sharr, Sir.
Imagine This, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwerndrobwllllant isiliogogogoch"
Never been away old man - but this site has bored me of late. I can tolerated being insulted by callow half wits, but being bored by them is simply insufferable.
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With 100s of pages of comments on a story like this the BBC website needs a much better way of navigating, such as a tag cloud.
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I just wish a similar panic would kick in with the Spanish property market, then I could afford to pack in work and go and lie in the sun.
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Rage, no one should ever be allowed to forget what that Tory goverment did, they would do it all again given half a chance.
Anyone really effected by these small interest rate rises should have paid bills instead of buying that new Plasma TV, tomorrow does come!!!
Steve Fisher, Hackney
Steve, let it go will you. No one knows what Cameron will do, the way he's going we will not get to know.
As for the second paragraph, indeed!
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I can tolerated being insulted by callow half wits, but being bored by them is simply insufferable.
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
Sorry my Friend, the half-wits are still with us and as callow and boring as ever once they were.
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Buy their stock while the price is low! I am.
Harriet Fingers
Are you low?
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"I just wish a similar panic would kick in with the Spanish property market, then I could afford to pack in work and go and lie in the sun."
See Dubya, Liverpool
It will. You'll be able to pick up property in some God-forsaken dump miles from any Spanish villages for a song soon. But having sun isn't enought...
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"I can tolerated being insulted by callow half wits, but being bored by them is simply insufferable."
Robert Sharr, London, United Kingdom
I never liked the cut of his gib.
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Nice to see Robert Sharr's return, I have been reading the submissions by your alter ego, Theresa Greene. Very amusing.
Do you look great in a bikini?
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Buy their stock while the price is low! I am.
Harriet Fingers
Are you low?
Atom John, Derby, United Kingdom
I cost more money than you will ever earn.
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"All i have learnt from this debate is its ok to call Bankers and Traders Monkeys but its not ok to call them grotty Essex boys.
Anyone from the BBC care to explain ?
Off Egg, London, United Kingdom"
Some are from Kent.
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jamie Noble "raq (they have WMDs)...DID THEY? DONT THINK SO!!
What do you think they killed thousands upon thousands of kurds with - hairspray ?
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jamie Noble "raq (they have WMDs)...DID THEY? DONT THINK SO!!
What do you think they killed thousands upon thousands of kurds with - hairspray ?
Dee Moss,
The WMD's the Americans gave them, which was obsolete long before we invaded.
Read Scott Ritters book, published before the war started.
Bush and Blair should be behind bars.
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Most of the people posting on this HYS are students with no assets and plenty of debt
Arthur Smedly
Well as the exams are so easy nowadays I think they deserve plenty of debt.
*Snigger, snigger*
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"The WMD's the Americans gave them, which was obsolete long before we invaded.
Read Scott Ritters book, published before the war started.
Bush and Blair should be behind bars."
pete tong
About the only thing George Galloway said that I ever agreed with was that they knew exactly what was there as they had the receipts.
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'This is waffle. The main cause is US sub-prime lending. HELLO - did you catch the *factual* news at all this week?
*Fantasy* news - why bother?
Martin R, London'
CSS code holds the secrets of italic and bold lettering, my friend. It adds to the bite of a comment, I feel.
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2. I would never trust the Labour socialists purely because theyre socialist! I.e. Iraq (they have WMDs)...DID THEY? DONT THINK SO!!
PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE !!THEIR!! MONEY OUT!
Jamie Noble, United Kingdom
YoU! MAY! fInD! less! CAFFeine! DURINg! THE!!! DAY!!! WILL HELP!!
Oh and Labour have not been very socialist for a long time.
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CSS code holds the secrets of italic and bold lettering, my friend. It adds to the bite of a comment, I feel.
Sophie Shinigami, Belfast, Ireland
Actually you used HTML tags, not inline CSS. I checked the page source. CSS should ideally be kept separate from the markup, in the same way that taxpayers money should be kept away from banks' debts to avoid encouraging foolish investments on their part.
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"House prices are static, other prices are falling, You are wrong. You are also wrong about the civil servants. I would have thought privatization was OK with you though?
LeftLiberal AndProud"
Er, Do you know what your talking about because it seems to me you don't. House prices are still going up albeit more slowly than of late, I'm a Civil Servant and our numbers ARE falling. More hot air from Planet Drivel.
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"But better than Nigel Lawson/Thatcher selling capital assets for operating expenses. If GB's 'money' is borrowed, then it is no less sustainable.
Simple economic facts."
Russ Limbaugh, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sheesh. I agree with Rush. I must be running a temperature? Maybe he is?
Loo Read, Noo Yoak
This is a Rush from an alternative universe where he is not a racist verbose fool. He is little known over here although many HYSterics seem to be channeling his thoughts.
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"This is a Rush from an alternative universe where he is not a racist verbose fool. He is little known over here although many HYSterics seem to be channeling his thoughts.
LeftLiberal AndProud"
Who or what is a racist verbose fool? Does this not break the HYS house rules by this name calling. Planet Drivel again....
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"Who or what is a racist verbose fool? Does this not break the HYS house rules by this name calling. Planet Drivel again...."
Charlie the Cat Hatestheleft, ASBOville (formally known as Calne..) Speedcamerashire, United Kingdom
Ah, Charlie, Russ is one of our special HYSterics. There's off, then off-the-wall. Russ is off-the-wall and ranting like an unreconstructed Neocon. He ought to be in a museum.
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"Er, Do you know what your talking about because it seems to me you don't...
Charlie the Cat Hatestheleft, ASBOville (formally known as Calne..) Speedcamerashire, United Kingdom"
Of course he doesn't know what he's talking about! That's why, instead of coming out with a reasoned argument, he simply said "you're wrong!", like some petulant schoolchild.
Give him a red rosette and let him dribble outside a social club somewhere.
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"... have decided on a massive expansion of Faith Schools including 100 Islamic schools to be funded by the taxpayer"
[Freedomknight], Rayleigh, United Kingdom
Still a drop in the ocean compared to the number of state-funded church schools... your point for mentioning this being what?
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"your point for mentioning this being what?"
Phosgene Gasse
Oh. The penny drops. You're prejudiced! as-salaam alaykum to you too.
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"... have decided on a massive expansion of Faith Schools including 100 Islamic schools to be funded by the taxpayer
[Freedomknight], Rayleigh, United Kingdom
Still a drop in the ocean compared to the number of state-funded church schools... your point for mentioning this being what?
Phosgene Gasse"
And I wonder how many state-funded church schools there are in Islamic countries? I bet I could count them all on my left ar$e cheek!
The hypocrisy sickens me.
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Whats on the curriculum at "Islamic schools"?
Home bomb making?
Flag burning?
O level Hijacking?
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"And I wonder how many state-funded church schools there are in Islamic countries? I bet I could count them all on my left ar$e cheek!
The hypocrisy sickens me."
I want my country back, England, United Kingdom
Your country is still here - obviously. Why not research this instead of wondering like a slack-jawed loon?
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"And I wonder how many state-funded church schools there are in Islamic countries? I bet I could count them all on my left ar$e cheek!
The hypocrisy sickens me.
I want my country back, England, United Kingdom
Your country is still here - obviously. Why not research this instead of wondering like a slack-jawed loon?
Bebe Rebozo"
He/she won't need to research it... I'm sure some slack-jawed loon of a leftie will make up a convenient number and foist it upon him.
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I hope all these folk withdrawing their life savings have brought their own bodygaurds for the journey home.
If I was a mugger I know where I'd be hanging around today.
Neil- Preston, UK
May I recommend a mid-life career change?
[Kennesaw], Dunwoody, United States
Wow! How did you think of THAT joke!
Only in the States can mugging be deemed a "career".
May I recommend a diet.
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Only in the States can mugging be deemed a "career".
May I recommend a diet.
Neil- Preston, UK
Oh, I've seen many, many comments written by Brits about career criminals, so lighten up.
By the way, I hardly need a diet.
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"He/she won't need to research it... I'm sure some slack-jawed loon of a leftie will make up a convenient number and foist it upon him."
Topsy Turvy, England, United Kingdom
Hard to tell if this is satire upon the credulousness of people on the right to believe anything in the Mail (which btw still buys paparazzo pictures despite their commitment not to) or people from the left for not getting bent out of shape as easily and still trying to present information that gets roundly ignored.
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"Oh, I've seen many, many comments written by Brits about career criminals, so lighten up.
By the way, I hardly need a diet."
[Kennesaw], Dunwoody, United States
Cool. I dont use nothern rock but i look fab in a bikini. Its a bit cold thought.
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If anyone wants to see the sheer idiocy of the British people, the fundamentaly illogical nature of their barely-functioning brains, the bizarre responses to changes in their environment, the absolute stupidity of the average UK citizen, then just pop along to your local Northern Rock and take a good look at those in the queue.
This is why our country is falling apart. Non-thinking buffoons.
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