Sunday Papers: Osborne in last-ditch talks to split top banks

The Sunday Telegraph: The new Governor of the Bank of England arrives in the UK this week. He should take care not to upstage the resident of Number 11.

The Sunday Telegraph (Comment): As markets bet against the pound, 2013 could be a tipping point for the currency.

Can the Uk Govt. urgently bring forward the installation of the new Governor -- please.

Before the speculators feed the credit agencies as well as betting against the pound. Too much now at stake in the |UK economy. And a weak pound may be considered to help exports ?? -- it also has its disadvantages. No UK safe haven-- increased fuel energy costs. But entrenched views and political mis - judgements /incompetence are taking their toll of UK plc.

No bids, no tips, why not delete these from headings in future? The third section could be better accomodated in the second.

ah yes our Orwellian Chancellor. It is truly scary that somebody with so little insight can have clawed his way into aposition where he can do so much damage.

joe................... the one before him and especially Mr McBrown, the one before that, did a lot more damage.

The problem for the current incumbent is to minimise the effect. Not an enviable job!. He's welcome to it! If you have a little more insight and lack of Orwellianism, perhaps you could claw your way into conveying this to Mr Osborne on behalf of all us hapless UK citizens. We would be eternally grateful and a little less scared about the potential damage.

Ian, spot on, but the economic knowledge of cyclops could easily be written on the sharp end of a pin. The real architect was Balls, and he is still trying to peddle his vision and economics, the ones that got us into this mess, to the public. How he ever got an economic degree is beyond me. Mind you good at personal finances and how to fiddle expenses to his betterment. Mind you siliband allows him to do this, and that gives you a fair idea of his economic savvy (near or minus nil), even though he allegedly read the subject at uni.

Sorry to say Osborne is a financial pygmy. No, that cannot be right, they are infinitely superior, and Cameron is much too absorbed in corrupting and redefining the word 'marriage' when he should be doing something about the rotten economy he inherited from the students of Mugabe. Cameron is fiddling around the edges whilst the UK is burning, ergo unfit for his office.

Oh sure I have no problems with that at all the Blair Brown Government should go down as one of the most damaging in history. Blair knew what was coming so he made sure gordo REALLY WANTED THE TOP JOB BEFORE giving him the hospital pass. Now I would contend that this corrupt adminstration would not havce been able to pull half of what they did without a massive contribution from the financial sector. Whe the American investment banks and the rating agency chums came up with their fraudulent money for nothing scheme and rolled it out globally and investors screaming for returns our banks were conned jus like many others. The rest we all know yhe BOE and FSA panicked and refused to improve liquidity leaving the banks out to dry and then coercing Lloyds to take on HBOS ie take one for the team. Now fancy Gordo was credited with saving our financial system ( with a bit of help from Alistair) My issue tis that the currnet crop of overpaid and underqualified muppets have just made matter much much worse then they might have been with their idiotic politically motivated crusade. Rightly put they shoud spending less time and effort on appeasing a very small percentage of the population who almost certainly do not account for the majority of our country's tax income