RBS Protesters Ejected

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7795801.stm




Protesters ejected at RBS offices


Three-quarters of bankers will get big bonuses this year, the protesters claim


About 30 anti-poverty campaigners have been ejected from the RBS offices in the City after staging a protest against the bonuses paid to bankers.
The demonstrators handed out leaflets and unfurled banners with slogans such as "you owe us".

It was "unacceptable" that many staff continued to receive "obscene" sums when so many people were homeless, their spokeswoman said.
Security guards removed them from the building on Bishopsgate.

Government stake

"For the vast majority of us this Christmas will be more difficult than most," spokeswoman Ellie Schling said.
"But the majority of bankers will again be receiving obscene amounts of money in Christmas bonuses, and to make it worse, it's our money they're getting this year."
She accused the government of supporting bankers while "turning a blind eye to the tens of thousands of people left homeless due to inadequate social housing".
"We need to stand up to the banks and the government and tell them this is unacceptable," Ms Schling added.
The government purchased a 58% stake in RBS as part of its rescue package for banks affected by the economic downturn.
The company, formerly known as the Royal Bank of Scotland, is the UK's fifth-largest mortgage lender and has been in existence for nearly three centuries.

[righty]

Re: RBS Protesters Ejected

What can we expect from an industry which holds our politicians both in contempt & it's thrall by threatening that "if you don't save us we'll stop funding your extravagance"

Did you know the Federal Reserve is only 'Federal' in name & that in fact it's a private company run by the banks for the banks & who's CEO is actually selected by the banks who put a number of names forward for appointment by the President.

I hate to say this but it was not only the Treaty of Versailles that caused the ruination of the German economy, but both the banks & the compliant politicians behaviour is also in part what led to the popular rise of fascism in the 1930s

[natweststaffmember]

Re: RBS Protesters Ejected

Christmas bonuses for most RBS Group Bank Workers is £0 as quarterly bonuses are paid in February, May, August and November.

Other comments withdrawn having reconsidered views

[hellhasnofury]

Re: RBS Protesters Ejected

What can we expect from an industry which holds our politicians both in contempt & it's thrall by threatening that "if you don't save us we'll stop funding your extravagance"

Did you know the Federal Reserve is only 'Federal' in name & that in fact it's a private company run by the banks for the banks & who's CEO is actually selected by the banks who put a number of names forward for appointment by the President.

I hate to say this but it was not only the Treaty of Versailles that caused the ruination of the German economy, but both the banks & the compliant politicians behaviour is also in part what led to the popular rise of fascism in the 1930s

Although we think we are at the mercy of these financial institutes and all their matey politicians. None of these are poor.

Imagine if all of the people, swapped bank accounts and opened up another one with a different bank, cancelled all direct debits, for loans, credit cards and mortgages, we would soon bring these institutes to their knees. We are their lives blood and they need to realise this.

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They do realise we are their life blood. The sad truth is that they also realise that everyone changing their bank isn't going to happen because, unlike the banking industry, consumers are not a single entity and act independently - not for the good of consumers as a whole.

[hellhasnofury]

Re: RBS Protesters Ejected

They do realise we are their life blood. The sad truth is that they also realise that everyone changing their bank isn't going to happen because, unlike the banking industry, consumers are not a single entity and act independently - not for the good of consumers as a whole.

Yes but we can dream:reindeer:

[righty]

Re: RBS Protesters Ejected

Even though lengthy I make no apologies for posting this as it would appear the politicians of today have forgot the hard won lessons of the past

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)


and Abraham Lincoln

The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.


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