http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8402769.stm
It'll be interesting to see just how tough he gets with those pesky bankers, you know, the ones who until about 18 months ago used to be his best mates paying vast sums into the coffers by way of tax...
A bonus tax sounds tough on face value, just the sort of thing the public ought to lap up with glee. Will it work though? Might it all just be avoided by providing 'bonuses' in another form or just deferring them?.. How about a nice fat tax on bank profits? Hang on a minute, HMG owns a nice fat chunk of some of the biggest banks so they'll just be taxing themselves won't they?...
Does any of this matter to Darling or is all this tough talk really just gesture politics designed to con a few people into voting for them?...