Darling was their only decent and capable man.
But it's weird that under his watch goodwin ot 15 million pension- I don't blame him, i just think that shos the scale of how much things were messed up then.
Currently hester doing a diffiult job (and quite well apparently) he gets 2.5 million everyone up in arms- goodwin was a maniac and brown gabe him 15 million- its all mad.....

Bankers have been getting an earful for the past 3 years. Keeping repeating the message is getting us nowhere. What we should be working on is to ensure that it doesn't happen again. We've said that tougher regulatory measures must be brought in, cut back on their bonuses, cap their highest salaries and if found to have breached decent standards of behaviour and ethical practices make them corporately responsible which means criminal proceedings being taken against them.
The Conservative view is that voluntary regaulatorysystems work. My view is that they aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

The 'bankers' have become an easy target. Dsrling should pick on someone his own size, and ask himself why tougher regulations were not imposed to control them.

Actually George, what makes Darling's intervention politically notable is that it is of no political consequence because it carries no political force. It would have been notable if he'd had the balls to make those comments at the time the events were unfolding. He calls the bankers stupid and arrogant but he was the one who gave them what they wanted with no strings attached. What does that make him? Worse than stupid and arrogant, he is a coward and a hypocrite.

I also agree with Alastair Darlings view on bankers, he is also a flawed but decent man,and the shadow cabernet is a sorry place without him or someone with his decency.
Brown and Balls had no interest in reigning in the banks whilst the country was in meltdown they were far more interested with their plotting and in-fighting.The behaviour and treacherous nature of Brown and Balls is well documented in Andrew Rawsley's excellent book, and Ed Miliband is just keeping his enemy close.

The years before the crash debt was easy, people were faking there income on mortgage applications and all this mortgage debt was being passed around until the music stopped with lehmans, northern rock and gordons beloved Scottish banks.

This was all tolerated because the uk devoid of private sector industry had few growth areas that generated tax revenue and banking grew and grew and with it the property sector and mortgages, the party ended and now everyone is upset especially as the public sector grew significantly and relied on healthy increase in tax revenues.

The west has longer term problems in which it needs to reduce consumption and debt and invest in the future, this process will be painful but the public don't want to hear it and the politicians don't want to tell us (as the messenger always gets killed).

Fully aree with Alistair Darlings views on the Bankers, just wondering why you are not airing his views on Gordon Brown and Ed Balls. Lets' be honest Brown and Balls had the opportunity to rein in the Banks but didn't.

I will never understand what Ed Miliband sees in Ed Balls.