Prospects for Wednesday 17th September
Here is today's output editor Robert Morgan with the prospects for tonight's programme.
Hello everyone,
What a day. The financial turmoil continues. Lloyds is in advanced merger talks with HBOS to create a huge UK retail bank. The deal, if it goes through, would end the uncertainty about the strength of HBOS following the calamitous run on its shares.
Do come to the meeting with ideas on how we should do all the elements in this story.
More pressure on Gordon Brown today with the possibility of more resignations.
Nick Clegg will be speaking to the LibDems today. Michael is there with Hugh.
We've also got a really strong film from Allan Little on Bosnia.
Robert
Comment number 1.
At 17th Sep 2008, bookhimdano wrote:Gas prices drop by 40% but not for the customer. Good. Support your local foreign multinational is just the slogan we need in these days of uncertainty.
These high retail prices are a blessing to ease in a nuclear program.
As for those tree hugging extremists who want a two way grid. The Uk is right to not follow most other industrialised nations who have foolishly seized it with both hands. Now everyone else has one it would be so common for us to bother with it.
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Comment number 2.
At 17th Sep 2008, barriesingleton wrote:PROOFING THE PUDDING-HEADS
Clegg is the wing-ed herald of 'a new kind of government' - apparently.
But he is a standard politician, who puts up with Westminster in all its iniquity.
A military bloke recently said we are 'future proofing' Iraq, but can Clegg CORRUPTION- PROOF himself and his party?
If he accepts that power inexorably corrupts , he needs to put in place, at an early stage, corruption-proofing of a high order.
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Comment number 3.
At 17th Sep 2008, stayingcool wrote:How interesting! Bosnia! The Lib Dems public front! My, I can't wait!
How about yesterday ONS figures on shocking population increase??
The stuff that actually interests people.
When will it dawn on you that no one responds because you are so irrelevant?
And when will you have the guts to discuss the real issues?
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Comment number 4.
At 17th Sep 2008, thegangofone wrote:Perhaps it is too early to analyze but I would have thought "America's top military commander, Adm Michael Mullen, has met Pakistani officials to discuss operations along the troubled border with Afghanistan." would make the list?
The permutations if these operations go ahead and succeed are immense as are the ramifications if Pakistan is destabilised.
People are still talking about Brown and the political situation but not about how ready we are to face up to the possibility he could be "foreign" soon after 2010 and the referendum. He's not taking the hint and looks to be going to win the battle but lose the war. Is there a post Lehmans poll?
With the economic crisis how about looking at why Russia apparently has closed its stock market. How are China and India doing?
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Comment number 5.
At 17th Sep 2008, MaggieL wrote:Please will you explain, for the benefit of economic illiterates like me, where all the money's gone. The banks had lots of money. Now they haven't. So who's got it? Have the banks and politicians been victims of a gigantic con? The cash can't have vanished off the face of the earth, so where is it? Its all very well slagging off the politicians and institutions who've lost it but I'd also like to slag off the sleazebags who are now in possession of it.
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Comment number 6.
At 17th Sep 2008, bookhimdano wrote:It s no doubt a gift to be told by the learned that without nuclear the uk lights will go out. How does that one perfect vision skilfully cope with the fact that germany's two way grid supplies more energy that the whole of the uk's nuclear industry? But saying that its not possible. Simple.
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