“We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills…”

—  Vince Cable

Said about bankers during the chancellors debate http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100031975/ask-the-chancellors-live-darling-osborne-and-cable-debate/ on 29 March 2010. <br class="br">2010

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