The £squillion public banking bail out ?

[BobTheCrate]

I'm still none the wiser guys.

Given the current stat d'affaire (excuse my rubbish french), I'm surprised & maybe a bit frustrated the answer to this pretty goddamn fundamental question is so elusive.

[Platypus]

Savers are earning negative interest

Balls.

Show me a bank or building society that is advertising a negative interest rate.

(I expect you might mean relative to inflation. Well tough, what law of the universe states that you're entitled to make money on your savings?)

[Mich the Tester]

I'm still none the wiser guys.

Given the current stat d'affaire (excuse my rubbish french), I'm surprised & maybe a bit frustrated the answer to this pretty goddamn fundamental question is so elusive.

Well I’d have thought it was an easy question too, but apparently we are now entering a phase of quantum economics in which money can be both real and fake, both lent and given, all at the same time. A bit like a photon, but more expensive.

as I say, me not understand either.

[TimberWolf]

Balls.

Show me a bank or building society that is advertising a negative interest rate.

(I expect you might mean relative to inflation. Well tough, what law of the universe states that you're entitled to make money on your savings?)

I never said negative interest rate. I didn't cover savers entitlement to make money on savings because that's not directly relevant to the observation that we are still bailing out the banks. Or rather that savers and house buyers are.

[dang65]

Balls.

What does the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families have to do with it? You're really clouding the issue now.