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Gummer steps down
Has he been fiddling his expenses? Didn't do much for IFAs did he Mr Burger man!
Posted by: Incompetent Regulators Awards Team
Gummer
About whom Dennis Healey in 1983 famously said:" I could carve a better man out of a banana"
Posted by: Peter Morris
Friends in high places
When he spoke for the IFA his comments were well made and Lord knows we need friends in high places. I'm not in a position to judge value for money etc but what I do know is that it is this "lack of friends" that has got us into such a mess where the FSA are able to flush us down the RDR toilet along with mass market independent advice and perhaps a good part of the financial services industry! They couldn't do this to lawyers because the Commons & Lords is full of them, but alas not IFAs! John perhaps you can now put your energy into the IFA cause because we have not heard enough of the good things you have to say.
Posted by: SIMON MANSELL
Healey - a pot calling a kettle a banana
But Healey was an even bigger banana when as Chancellor he was forced to beg a loan from International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop the UK going bust under Labour rule. Sounds a little like Crash Gordon otherwise known as Golden Brown seller of the UK Gold Reserves and fan of the FSA!
Posted by: Simon Mansell
Speak of what you know.
Good Lord! Well said Simon Mansell! I’m delighted to be able to agree with you. Mr. Awards Team - how many times have you met Mr. Gummer? I make no comment about his efficacy or otherwise as an MP - that is really of no concern to me, but I do know what a staunch friend and robust supporter he has been of the IFA community. If we had another couple like him we wouldn't have half as many moaners on blogs like these. (Including me!) PS Mr Morris how on earth you can have the nerve to mention Dennis Healy is beyond me. A charming man on a personal level, but as a member of that awful labour Government under Wilson he was fortunate in not being impeached for dragging the country down even further than the present incompetent incumbents. There has never been a Labour government that hasn’t completely ruined the UK economy. By comparison Mr. Gummer is a political hero.
Posted by: Harry Katz