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Is LLoyds TSB a safe bank ?.

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  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    That's the irony, they've been refused permission before with other deals, but the government wanted them to help HBOS (presumably because they didn't want to stump up and nationalise yet another bank), so have thrown competition law out of the window to allow it to go through...
  • isofa wrote: »
    That's the irony, they've been refused permission before with other deals, but the government wanted them to help HBOS (presumably because they didn't want to stump up and nationalise yet another bank), so have thrown competition law out of the window to allow it to go through...

    The government would have stumped up nothing.

    We as taxpayers would.
    Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-

    Orwell.
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