Comments on: John Redwood’s contribution to the Banking Bill debate http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/10/20/john-redwoods-contribution-to-the-banking-bill-debate/ Conservative Party Candidate for Wokingham Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:16:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mikestallard http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/10/20/john-redwoods-contribution-to-the-banking-bill-debate/#comment-26355 mikestallard Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:13:04 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=1851#comment-26355 An excellent - and surprisingly astute and realistic statement, if I may say so! Two questions: 1. Wouldn't you have liked to have made this excellent speech a couple of months ago when parliament was still on holiday? 2. I have not seen this on the parliament channel. How many people were there to listen to this speech? And, just as important, how many were prepared to do anything about your excellent analysis and advice? Reply: Thank you. Yes I did want to make the speech earlier, and did call for Parliament to come back in September so we could discuss how to handle the crisis. The BBC would not run a speech like this as it does not conform to their caricatures of me which they take from Labour spin.All they can do is drag me into a studio to blame me for the crisis for being a deregulator, without having read my Report and other pieces which set out how we needed to regulate banking capital, liquidity and interest rates better! An excellent – and surprisingly astute and realistic statement, if I may say so!
Two questions:
1. Wouldn’t you have liked to have made this excellent speech a couple of months ago when parliament was still on holiday?
2. I have not seen this on the parliament channel. How many people were there to listen to this speech? And, just as important, how many were prepared to do anything about your excellent analysis and advice?

Reply: Thank you. Yes I did want to make the speech earlier, and did call for Parliament to come back in September so we could discuss how to handle the crisis. The BBC would not run a speech like this as it does not conform to their caricatures of me which they take from Labour spin.All they can do is drag me into a studio to blame me for the crisis for being a deregulator, without having read my Report and other pieces which set out how we needed to regulate banking capital, liquidity and interest rates better!

]]>