Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets.… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment,… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
