RBS & Barclays may get £45 billion

[Cyberman]

It's funny how UK would not find a few billions to save Rover and other companies (even if to sell them for £1 to Japanese or Chinese) but suddenly huge amounts are spent to bail out buddies from the City.

Any such bailout should be done with execs going to jail pending trial.

You cannot equate a car company with banks that keep the whole economy in operation. I thought you had more intelligence than that.

[TimberWolf]

Any such bailout should be done with execs going to jail pending trial.

I must admit I wouldn't mind seeing this guy put in jail and his assets seized.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-collapse.html

[DS23]

I just hope Lloyds TSB abandons stupid purchase they made

i think that would be a truly disastrous thing to do.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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HMG will part-nationalise because it is in their blood and in the long-run they will make tens of billions to fill the empty coffers.

Won't that be a good thing for the incoming Tory administration? They'll get the income and the kudos when they re privatise them?

[merv]

Remember HBOS.....

barclays arent requesting any capital, i think all this hear say is worsening the issue

Just a couple of weeks ago, the HBOS chairman was fiercely denying any problems, just an hour or so later, the real story came out and it emerged that he's been in talks with Lloyds all day and the deal was done. He must have popped out of the meeting with them to deny anything was happening!!!

[AtW]

i think that would be a truly disastrous thing to do.

For HBOS yes.

[AtW]

I must admit I wouldn't mind seeing this guy put in jail and his assets seized.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-collapse.html

I think he might end up there actually.

[merv]

Branson on BBC News

Sir Dick is on there now saying there is a real risk of RBS toppling. He also said that Virgin Atlantic have tried to move a 'few hundred million' to a safer location, however 'the bank' came up with some small print in their terms to prevent them from doing so!