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Originally Posted by Aragorn
About £2 billion of bribes for middle class voters.
Followed by £3 billion of stealth clawbacks next year after the election.
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No - it's £2 billion of
promised bribes, followed by £3 billion of
actual stealth taxes, and then they'll tell us how we're only worse off by the difference between the two.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Am I right in believing that at the moment with dormant accounts, the banks claim the money as part of their profits, but should the customer claim the money, it will be available.
If the treasury grabs this money, how will the customer/saver get it back?
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I don't know how the banks cook their books, but this is just plain daylight robbery. How GB can justify clearing out bank accounts just cos people don't touch them for a while is beyond me.
Just shows the money-grabbing thinking at no. 11