Thread: For those of us unfit to work
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Old 04-11-2011, 08:36   #69
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Re: For those of us unfit to work
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
So the up to £50 billion that the UK Government put into buying shares in HBOS, Llloyds, and RBS, along with £500 billion of guarantees, wasn't taxpayers money?
They are shares. Anyone can buy shares as an investment. Unless you have a huge chunk of them, then you don't get much in the way of voting rights. So they are still a PLC, and not a nationalised business.
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