When I read that Mr Shapps, who I actually like, had made a speech within which he called for 30 year fixed rate mortgages I must admit my shoulders sagged a touch.
My first reaction was if that was the best idea he can come up with then we are all up the proverbial creek without a you know what. In reverting back to an oft tried and never achieved call for 30 year mortgages we suddenly saw that actually, no one in power at least, seems to really get the issues.
This week sees the next meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, (MPC), and the talk is once again about whether rates will finally rise. This time the meeting is held against the backdrop of some stinging criticism by the Governor Mervyn King of the Big Banks, that has unsurprisingly, not gone down as well as it could in Bank Boardrooms.
Basically, Merv warned that failure to reform the banking system and remove the “too big to fail” assumption could easily lead to another financial crises. Cuttingly, he stated that over the past two decades, too many people in financial services had thought “if it’s possible to make money out of gullible or unsuspecting customers, that’s perfectly acceptable”.
Not since the glory days of Morecambe & Wise have a double act so apparently “in tune” with each other graced our TV screens. The pictures last night of Messers. Clegg & Cameron playing off each other with a mixture of business-like seriousness and mock-comic light-heartedness was, it has to be said, scarily refreshing.
By all accounts the two really have hit it off which can only be good news for a country that, love ‘em or hate ‘em, desperately needs “strong & stable Government” to tackle our debt issues.
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