Financial crisis: Bradford & Bingley nationalisation will cost (UK) taxpayers £150bn

Financial crisis: Bradford & Bingley nationalisation will cost (UK) taxpayers £150bn

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Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, will announce this morning [MON] that the Government is taking over the bank’s mortgages and selling off the savings business and the branches. Savers are reassured that their money is safe although people owning shares in the bank will lose out.

The Government may merge the bank, which has mortgages worth more than £40 billion, with the nationalised Northern Rock. Every taxpayer in Britain will be exposed to the equivalent of £5,500 in mortgage debt as a result.

In another day of frantic action around the world, the American Government also agreed a $700 billion deal to take on bad banking debts following several days of intense talks in Washington. However, British taxpayers are now more exposed to mortgage debts than their American counterparts, who are saddled with the equivalent of £2,750 per taxpayer.

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The disease is spreading, the article also mentions that that Europe is looking to bail out Fortis - a Belgian bank which is the UK's third biggest motor insurer.

As if UK taxpayers aren't saddled with enough already - the Brown govt is already taxing the shirts off our backs! Thank the gods his days are numbered, then again, I suppose since he knows he's going down the plughole anyway, he doesn't much care...



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