Bankers

[IDontBelieveIt]

OK I may have spelled the subject line wrong, does it start with a W?

Now let me see.

1. The 'big four' banks in the UK mess up their businesses, paying themselves massive bonuses for doing so.

2. They squeal to their friends in Parliament that they have run out of cash.

3. The plonkers in Parliament give them £60B of OUR money as if they are all playing Monopoly.

4. The 'big four' then hold back and do not pass on lower interest rates to the people that gave them the £60B in the first place. One assumes so they can pay themselves even bigger bonuses out of OUR money.

5. So tell me if these plonkers in Parliament were really there for the people why did the not say to the 'big four' "Well unless you pass on the drop in interest rates I think we will have the £60B back NOW!" Then watch the 'big four' jump to attention.

Who are the tossers the banks or the Government? OK I think I know the answer.

[Steve the Gas]

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[handyman]

the government are the idiots...........imagine not having any strings attached to lending that amount of money

Of course the banks will try and get away with as much as possible.

[village idiot]

OK I may have spelled the subject line wrong, does it start with a W?

Now let me see.

1. The 'big four' banks in the UK mess up their businesses, paying themselves massive bonuses for doing so.

2. They squeal to their friends in Parliament that they have run out of cash.

3. The plonkers in Parliament give them £60B of OUR money as if they are all playing Monopoly.

4. The 'big four' then hold back and do not pass on lower interest rates to the people that gave them the £60B in the first place. One assumes so they can pay themselves even bigger bonuses out of OUR money.

5. So tell me if these plonkers in Parliament were really there for the people why did the not say to the 'big four' "Well unless you pass on the drop in interest rates I think we will have the £60B back NOW!" Then watch the 'big four' jump to attention.

Who are the tossers the banks or the Government? OK I think I know the answer.

both

[Grockle]

First, all the 'experts' (political & commercial) got us into a crisis by borrowing too much money and giving it to people who could/would not pay it back.

Then they use our money to bail them out and reduce our savings rate as a reward for being docile.

Then they borrow even more money to fix(?) things.

I am glad that I sold all my shares in august last year. If I could see trouble looming why couldn' the whizz kids.

[feva]

the next big thing is the bank charges this isnt get mention as much as it, how can teh courts make the banks pay out? where will the bank get the money from? answer the goverment ie us, if it does end up going through we will wnd up paying bank the charge with our own money.


the government are the idiots...........imagine not having any strings attached to lending that amount of money

answer hanyman the type of goverment that will soon have alot of people looking for new jobs when the retire like gorden brown, who do you think will be the first to offer him a job?

what gets to me is, the fact that the banks/goverment making lending easy, and then sitting by and watching the mess get to the point where it is, like Grockle could see it coming why couldnt the people who work in teh banks/goverment see it coming and it how its bring people down who doint diserve it, my and the missus have one credit card, and thats there in case we need it, we dont borrow money at all, if we did we would only borrow within our means, yet were getting affected by it all, ive had four jobs cancelled all because they have the money for the work to be done but dont want to spend it incase the cost of living goes up again.

i just wish i could mess a job right up and still get paid plus a bonus, must be nice living it that type of world.[/img]

[Raf]

apparantly there are string attached but the guy pulling the string hasnt got the balls... and i dont think Barclays or HSBC have taken a direct handout (although they can use money from the massive stimulus package open to all UK banks).

we own parts of these banks as shareholders; however we dont have a voice strong enough.... just MP's saying "please can you pass this"

fcuk that they should be forcing them to pass it on or pull all funding; exclude them from the stimulus package and watch their share price drop.

to think that it will only help 10% of mortagage holders i cannot see their gripe (they still make a killing off the rest of the 90%); the evils of capitalism!

[Cellarman]

I think you're a bit mixed up here, where is the dividing line between the people at the top in the banks who are giving themselves the huge bonuses and those who are running this country and pulling the strings of the politicians?

Roll on the revolution. Can I be in the firing squad?