Has Darling slipped up over the Dunfermline Building Society?

ken from glos

This so called Government is collapsing at a frightening rate.

If it carries on like this it wont last 14 weeks let alone 14 months.

oldrightie

Darling was a disgrace on Marr, as was the programme. Darling's shifty and mendacious performance was Brown in disguise. You could almost see the strings.

strapworld

If he did move against Darling, I reckon that would start the whole edifice to implode!

Darling could make a Geoffrey Howe resignation speech, where Brown would have to sit, pick his nose and squirm. Jack Straw would look contented like the Cheshire cat and Ms Harmon will be dreaming "It is my time"

The betting is will they last the Summer?

David Ossitt

This would be the opportunity for Darling to give his own Geoffrey Howe speach; now wouldn't that be a splended idea?

Alex

The thing is, it doesn't matter even if Darling has slipped up

The Labour Party, and in particular their front bench, will always be protected by our forever protective mainstream media, in particular the BBC, Channel 4, The Times et al.

TrevorsDen

Just how many bodies does Darling know the location of?

Probably not as many as Hoon since his continued survival must be due the secrets he threatens not to carry to the grave.

Mitch

Let slip the McBride of war.
Trouble is knowing the nutter with a stutters MO it wont work we will chuckle a bit and mourn another Nokia.

RobertD

All RBS needed was a little rights issue, then a substantial government underwritten rights issue with nil take up by shareholders, then a massive toxic asset insurance. Thats seems to be how these horrors unfold and it is not surprising if the Treasury have finally wised up to the fact that they might as well go in mob handed at the begining and establish the truth whatever the management want to claim.

However am I being too suspicious to think that the briefing against the Chancellor is coming from somewhere very near to Dunfirmline and it's local mafia via No10. Not only an opportunity for Brown's attack dogs, but a situation that they have actively engineered to punish Darling.

Bishop Hill

My father-in-law attended the Dunfermline BS AGM last time round. He says that the meeting was told told that the society had no exposure to sub-prime lending. This would appear to corroborate your story.

griff

The UK is in a catastrophic state.

King (Mervyn) meets Queen.

Cameron is meeting Obama.

Is it possible that a National Government is being considered?

golfwidow

Dumferline?

mckenzie

Correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to be confirming my own thoughts about Darling's coded message that he and King are in one mind. Things are pretty dam serious I believe, the Queen has sought private counsel with King also, suggesting serious doubts all round regarding Brown's bloody sanity. I think I am glad I do not know everything because the little I do seem to perceive is scary enough.

Tom Pride

This lot ain’t going nowhere before June 2010. There is no way they are giving up the extra pension that one year’s extra minister’s salary brings. They can see the writing on the wall. They are going to lose their seats and a hostile government is not going to soften the blow with cushy quango jobs for the boys and girls.

My prediction? It all depends on Alistair Darling. If he survives the coming onslaught then the country has a chance at the end of a long hard road of toil and sweat. If he goes down then the madman will scorch earth and borrow to the destruction of the currency and the UK’s creditworthiness.

If Darling is reshuffled does he get to make a resignation speech? If he goes under the No. 11 after tea with Merv then he certainly won’t.

Alfred T Mahan

A party in power only voluntarily goes to the polls if it thinks it has a decent chance of winning. This bunch of mendacious no-hopers know the writing's on the wall and won't go near an election until the last possible moment.

He's no longer Macavity Brown - he's Micawber Brown.

BaiDaLong

Life does imitate art, y'know......

'Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm

Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone

When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly fell down and died'

Oh Darling, by John Lennon/Paul McCartney

Next week 'Dear Prudence'.....

hadrian

Let's just say this little fiasco will not do Labour any good in the Kingdom of Fife! Mr Fauld's fury seems genuine enough to me. At this rate the only decent banks left in Scotland will be the tiny but unltra canny Airdrie Savings Bank ( eight branches) and the Clydesdale. Sad indeed.