Friday 21 December 2012

Electrifying The Ringfence

Investment banking and retail banking should be split completely. All of the banks should be turned into mutual building societies, ironclad as such by statute.

Apart, that is, from the public stakes in HBOS and RBS. Those are permanent, non-negotiable safeguards of the Union, as public ownership always is.

Therefore, the profits from each of those stakes should be divided equally among all the households in the United Kingdom.

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