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Edinburgh is the second largest largest financial centre in the UK after the City of London, and the fifth in Europe.

Ah. So some of the premiums are paid out to shareholders as dividends? Sounds great.

How do they get through the trailer doors?

What the f*ck would you know? You don't even live here.

Really? Which would those be? The ones based on the old system of recording crime or the ones that were introduced in 1997 or the ones that superceeded those in 2001 or, because of the "performance target" system, the one in 2006 where if 4 friends were caught with one stolen pack of gum between them but nobody would say who did it it is recorded as four seperate crimes when only one had been committed and under the old system would have been recorded as a single event?

Which one f****it?

No, paid for by taxpayers and industry.

So London is either not the largest city or largest financial centre in the UK now? Strange how the rest of the world seems to think it is.

The Banks. But as UK banks don't solely get their profits from the UK market it doesn't hit them that hard.

Ah India..that wonderful country that is taking all your IT jobs away. And China too...taking all your manufacturing jobs away.

Explains why in Houston, Texas that 66% of all the cities citizens are officially overweight.

They weren't on the BBC and they were programmes made and produced by US companies.

So what?

Apparently it is.

We don't need to export anything. Plenty of your companies are more than willing to come here to get proper financial services for a start.

Extremely.

In Houston, Texas 66% of the population is officially overweight.

Not according to Gordon Brown in his March budget speech.

Ah. Someone wants to tell Edinburgh, then, as it's on their website.

And where do you think "The Banks" are getting the money from to make up for the losses? Hmm?

Hint: Banks are profit-making enterprises and not charities.

I've spent enough time in your shitty little country to know.

Whichever statistics you want to use, thicko. It's still rife.

Industry also pays taxes.

LOL. You really are thick. These costs are not absorbed by the banks. They're passed along to the punters as higher charges and higher interest rates.

It hits the punters instead.

It is, actually. But one doesn't follow from the other.

Want any more lessons in Economics?