With stock prices of part-nationalized GB banks in free-fall, how much of OUR money did Brown actually spend on buying these disgraced institutions?
The markets obviously consider them virtually worthless, which begs the question why taxpayers money has been wasted on *investing* in them. Did Brown do any kind of due diligence before coughing up the cash?
If the government felt widespread bank failures would be too destabilising for society they should have simply forcibly nationalized the lot rather than this ridiculous and costly pretense of making us *shareholders*.