
Terror stalked the halls of mortgageforce as technical manager Katie Tucker was called on by the BBC last Wednesday to talk about repossession rule changes.

Mole received this joke emblem from none other than John Charcol's Ray Boulger. "The government is changing its branding to a condom because it more accurately reflects its political stance," Boulger says.

Bank of England governor Mervyn King has offered a cautionary tale about government spending. He recounted that in 1958 the then governor of the BoE Cameron Cobbold explained to Robin Day on TV what national debt was. Day responded by asking if the UK had finished paying for World War II.

With Lending Strategy editor John Murray safely back in Blighty from his "fact-finding" trip to India with Kent Reliance chief executive Mike Lazenby, Mole braced himself for a deluge of Delhi Belly tales.

Mole has stumbled across this petition posted on the Number 10 website by Mortgages.co.uk calling for the government to effectively nationalise not banks but anyone with a mortgage.
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