Ed Miliband is pursuing a dodgy but popular
attack on bankers» bonuses today, so expect that to come up.
Last month, at his first appearance before the Treasury select committee of MPs, Diamond had called for end to
the attacks on bankers that have been commonplace since the 2008 financial crisis and the bailout of Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Not exact matches
There's Hellraiser «s Pinhead, standing in for Pinterest; there's The Birds» Tippi Hedren being
attacked by a flock of Twitter logos; and of course American Psycho's murderous investment
banker Patrick Bateman, professionally creeping
on LinkedIn.
«His deeply offensive
attacks on Jewish people,
bankers and political opponents are deliberate political calculations to attempt to gain more votes in one area, than he thinks he will lose in another.
Even his most conspicuous successes: the
attack on Rupert Murdoch
on phone hacking, his stance
on bankers» bonuses and his opposition to intervention in Syria in 2013 earned praise from the parliamentary party and broad respect in the media, but did little to rehabilitate his rather pathetic public persona.
Jacobs said he expected Sanders, who has repeatedly
attacked Wall Street
bankers, to have strong support among «progressive» activists
on «the Upper East side and the West Side of Manhattan» as well as parts of Brooklyn and upstate, especially Tompkins County, home of Cornell University.
The leader of the opposition still favours righteous anger as his line of
attack, berating the prime minister for ideologically motivated spending cuts and a failure to clamp down
on bankers» bonuses.
Thanks to a coordinated plan of
attack on part of global sovereign
bankers, and reiterated by new policy actions from the European Central Bank, the markets shrugged off early losses in the year with a very solid recovery in March.