Friday, Nov 16, 2007

Kiss Goodbye to The Rock

FT.com: Time to nationalise Northern Rock?

If current proposals for the Rock are unattractive it should be nationalised, run down and sold off a bit at a time over six or seven years.

A bit like the 1970's and 80's really.

Posted by enuii @ 07:56 PM (343 views) Add Comment

4 Comments

1. paul said...

Offloading this onto taxpayers is going to leave a very bad smell around the whole affair for the UK public.

Friday, November 16, 2007 10:26PM Report Comment
 

2. stillthinking said...

One large flat screen TV of smell each so far....
On a positive note, in relation to government taxes, a trifle.

Friday, November 16, 2007 11:56PM Report Comment
 

3. I-could-mrdr-a-blt said...

This is Enron, possible not as sophisticated, but the hallmarks are there, and this is massive money.

The bit that stinks with this one is the officials will offload to the tax payer(if they have not already).

I do hope the shareholders bring a nice big fat legal action on Applegarth.

Of course I may not completely understand the legal framework.

Friday, November 16, 2007 11:56PM Report Comment
 

4. dohousescrashinthewoods said...

What's all this offloading business? Most of it is in public ownership already ;)

Saturday, November 17, 2007 01:56PM Report Comment
 

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