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Fact or Fiscal Wishing?

Can anyone elaborate on neils comment?


Forgive if i am wrong, but most banks are owned by the tax payer. I have just won a case in the county court against the Halifax, NOBODY owes tax payer owned banks anything, be interesting to know who he owed money to and who represented him.
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neil, newcastle, United Kingdom, 25/7/2013 23:44

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  • brendon
    brendon Posts: 514 Forumite
    What is the question? I think the only person who could elaborate on Neil's comment is Neil himself(?)
  • Gordon_Hose
    Gordon_Hose Posts: 6,259 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Who's Neil?
  • p00hsticks
    p00hsticks Posts: 14,904 Forumite
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    Who's Neil?


    some anonymous person from Newcastle who makes daft comments on Daily Mail online articles (revealed from links in the original post)

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/registration/1373112344230613/neil/profile.html
  • opinions4u
    opinions4u Posts: 19,411 Forumite
    Forgive if i am wrong, but most banks are owned by the tax payer.
    You're wrong.
  • dalesrider
    dalesrider Posts: 3,447 Forumite
    harry438 wrote: »


    Forgive if i am wrong, but most banks are owned by the tax payer.

    Well that statement is so far off the mark its a joke. :rotfl:

    Unless he thinks that the only banks are Lloyds & RBS.

    Lets not forget
    HSBC, Barclays, Santander and the rest still not tax payer owned.
    Never ASSUME anything its makes a
    >>> A55 of U & ME <<<
  • harry438
    harry438 Posts: 25 Forumite
    I am also baffled by neils comments...............but it would be nice to own just one bank.
  • p00hsticks
    p00hsticks Posts: 14,904 Forumite
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    dalesrider wrote: »
    Well that statement is so far off the mark its a joke. :rotfl:

    Unless he thinks that the only banks are Lloyds & RBS.


    Even if he does think that the only banks are Lloyds and RBS he's still way off the mark - as I recall the goverment bail out resulted in them having about a 40% stake in Lloyds and a 60% stake in RBS - so ther are plenty of other non-government shareholders out there.
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