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Wednesday, 15 October 2008

The Something-For-Nothing Society (part II)

By Simon Carr

It was a question to file away in the back of our minds. Bob Marris asked it of Alistair Darling on Monday. The Royal Bank of Scotland was worth a lot less than £20 billion in total. Yet the government paid £20 billion for less than two-thirds of it. Why was that? There must be an answer: suggestions on a postcard to the Treasury, 11 Downing St, SW1A 2AJ.

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