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Now we're all bankers should bank charges be dropped?
- 82% are saying yes
- 18% are saying no
comments from readers
- maria
15 October 2008 - yes
How can we charge ourselves interest? I suppose it will be taken from us in other ways. Does that mean we can give ourselves multimillion pound payrises too?
- bedabs
15 October 2008 - yes
what about a licence fee £10 p.a. it gives one the proper feel of a nationalised utility. The red braces & pin stripe boys will get used to stamping a little book for the public.
- Carl Jones
15 October 2008 - yes
The question is daft. The banks have had long lines of credit months and months ago. Now the UK government has forked out $64 billion so the nonexistant banks can lend debt money that we will pay interest on and then we pay more interest on OUR money which the banks has just been given to them, so they can lend to us.
And this is why the QUESTION is daft......bank charges are a side issue. If the British, American and European people just sat down for a FEW MINUTES and thought this through, they be marching on the City and Wall St and burn down their temples.
The latest round of bailout boggie has cost us over $2 trillion, but all in all, its around $5 trillion and counting.......
......bank charges.LOL
Come on people, get SERIOUS, for just a few minutes.LOL
- Reginald
16 October 2008 - yes
The tables have turned. The banks need our investment. So hopefully i will be treated like a valuable customer with doorman holding the door open and so on.
- swatantra nandanwar
16 October 2008 - no
No, but they should be drastically reduced.
- Cybertiger
16 October 2008 - no
Drop charges? No, I think the former bankers should be charged with grand larceny and sentenced to death.
- Reginald
16 October 2008 - yes
Nonsense! that a bit hard my good chaps! Bank charges need to abolished. We need bankers made from public school tie material.
- SPJD
17 October 2008 - yes
we should get dividends instead! each citizen should get shares! alocated...! that would be great and help equality....
- boru
17 October 2008 - no
The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced in US. I've been doing my part.
17 October 2008- no
Our current problems have been caused by irresponsible, greedy bankers and borrowers, who have equally been greedy and irresponsible - do we want the situation to get worse?
Alan Briggs
Cambridge - william.ford@live.co.uk
17 October 2008 - yes
Government has finally admited they are all merchant bankers.
- Frank Amies
17 October 2008 - yes
Of course they should but with the usual suspects still in charge there is as much chance of that happening as me winning the lottery, which I do not do.
- suell
17 October 2008 - yes
Yes, one good and egalitarian way to cut down on bankers' greed and irresponsiblity.
Sue LL
- Broga
19 October 2008 - yes
If a bank boss can still get a pension of £500,000 a year, after wrecking his bank, why should we pay bank charges?
- Paul Lettan
19 October 2008 - yes
Shouldn't they pay us better interest on current accounts for our lending them money
- Themadman
21 October 2008 - no
Bankers work hard and deserve the money they get.
