Signatories to a letter in The Guardian.
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, nef
Ann Pettifor, author, The Coming First World Debt Crisis
Billy Hayes, General Secretary, CWU
Dave Prentis, General Secretary, UNISON
Gavin Hayes, General Secretary, Compass
Neal Lawson, Chair, Compass
Prof Gregor Gall, Universityof Hertfordshire
Prof Prem Sikka, EssexBusinessSchool
Richard Murphy, Tax Justice Network UK
Stewart Lansley, author, Rich Britain: The Rise and Rise of the New Super-Wealthy
Sunny Hundal, Liberal Conspiracy
Will Straw, Liberal Conspiracy (eh?)
Michael Meacher MP
Sam Tarry, Chair, Young Labour
(There are a number of names I’ve left out of course.)
11 responses so far ↓
1 Ian Bennett // Feb 26, 2010 at 12:15 pm
In his defence, Dave Prentis probably hasn’t read it. (Too many long words.)
And Sally Ruane can’t even spell the name of her university.
2 Newmania // Feb 26, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Oh my days Sunny Hundal , he is always signing things in the Guardian .Its really the renta -mob of the 70s in virtual and printed form
3 PC // Feb 26, 2010 at 12:18 pm
There’s that term popping up again: “socially useful”.
Surely “socially useful” is whatever market participants decide it is! I don’t expect this list of “socially useless” to understand that, however.
4 Ian Bennett // Feb 26, 2010 at 12:21 pm
More seriously, they’ve invoked Glass-Steagall, so they’re obviously aware of the investment / retail diversification, yet they’ve not bothered to mention that the division getting the bonus is not the one that made the loss. If the two divisions had been separated, the retail arm would still have “needed” state bail-out, and the investment arm would still have made robust profits.
5 Kay Tie // Feb 26, 2010 at 2:47 pm
“Round up the usual suspects!”
6 vimothy // Feb 26, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I don’t care what their names are, the route they travel to work, or where they buy green groceries.
I love the definition of socially useful above. Mass government intervention in markets is thus “socially useful” as long as it is a direct transfer to financial speculators.
7 Andrew K // Feb 26, 2010 at 8:22 pm
My first thought was that it was vacuous rubbish. But then I saw the name Andrew Simms…….
8 So Much For Subtlety // Feb 27, 2010 at 4:28 am
Newmania – “Oh my days Sunny Hundal , he is always signing things in the Guardian .Its really the renta -mob of the 70s in virtual and printed form”
What has Hundal ever done? I really don’t get it. He hasn’t been on Big Brother or one of these TV reality shows has he? How does that make any less pointless than that tart whose now knocked up by some footballer after having her tits done? I don’t understand why people ask him to sign things much less write them. Why does he get the attention he does? Is he like those people who crashed Obama’s party but much more successful – that is, he is always signing things so people ask him to sign things.
Because all I can see he has ever done is run a blog that virtually no one reads. Just a small group of refugees from CiF.
9 So Much For Subtlety // Feb 27, 2010 at 4:31 am
Still it does have one useful side effect – it gives a good indication of which Business Schools offer a degree that is probably wealth-reducing in the long run, to whit:
Geoffrey Hodgson, Research Professor of Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Prof Hugh Willmott, CardiffBusinessSchool
Prof Karel Williams, ManchesterBusinessSchool
Prof Malcolm Sawyer, LeedsUniversityBusinessSchool
Prof Martin Parkker, Schoolof Management,. Universityof Leicester
Prof Peter Case, BristolBusinessSchool
Prof Prem Sikka, EssexBusinessSchool
Prof Stefano Harney, Schoolof Business& Management, QMUL
10 Davinder Kohli // Mar 2, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Why is there so much jealousy on this website?
11 FCAblog » Rent-a-gob // Apr 1, 2010 at 6:42 pm
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