Vince Cable M.P. to speak at Annual Dinner – Last few tickets remaining!
Written by morty on September 6, 2008 – 8:55 am -
Wycombe Liberal Democrats are delighted to welcome another top guest for this year’s annual dinner. Vince Cable is the Liberal Democrats’ Deputy Leader and Shadow Chancellor.
Vince is held in high esteem not only in our own party but also across the political divide. The Telegraph recently described him as “The Government’s most trenchant economic critic.”
The CAB voted him as Parliamentarian of the year 2008 and House Magazine selected Vince as Opposition Politician of the year 2008.
The Annual Dinner will be held at the Parish Rooms, High Wycombe on 11th September 2008 7.30pm.
Tickets available to members at £25 (£15 students/claimants) from Wycombe Liberal Democrats, 144 Cock Lane, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 7EA. Please make your cheque payable to Wycombe Liberal Democrats.
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June 17th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Dear Mr Cable
I used to think you a lucid and balanced commentator on financial affairs, but I am fast forming the view that you have a personal agenda on the UK banking system to which you are prepared to subordinate the presentation of fair and reasonable arguments. I have just been watching Newsnight and am once again disappointed that you persist in associating HSBC (I declare my interest: my employer) in the same breath, without differentiation, with banks that have needed bailing out by the UK taxpayer. You know this not to be HSBC’s position, and yet you are content to mislead the viewers (and, as I have heard on the radio in the recent past, listeners) in this way. I should appreciate your taking more care in the future over what you say, as I should not like you to end up in my and the wider public’s estimation as a mere populist ‘tub-thumper’. I have to say that it is almost as disappointing that neither Gavin Essler nor his producers appear to have the sense of balance in their reporting to redress your omission.
Yours sincerely
Mark Cheesman
June 18th, 2009 at 8:57 am
But the point that Vince was making was that the Government guarantees deposits made by UK customers with all banks. HSBC didn’t need a government bail-out this time, but should still be covered under the new regime Vince is talking about (whereby risky investment banking and retail banking should be separated out)