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Northern Rock could cost taxpayer £2bn

Where are all the profits we were promised, from the sale of shares?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18106848
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it
everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx


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  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    vulcan1964 wrote: »
    Where are all the profits we were promised, from the sale of shares?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18106848


    Is this news?

    Can't believe you really thought there would be any.

    The cost of them going to the wall completely would have been a lot more.

    We could always suspend aid to other countries for 3 months - job done.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • coastline
    coastline Posts: 1,662 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    a different story...money for the taxpayer..

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17195562
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    coastline wrote: »
    a different story...money for the taxpayer..

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17195562

    I wonder if that is before or after interest/inflation?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
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