Comments on: The failure of joined up Government

By: bill

bill — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:18:48 +0000

I think you’ll find that Douglas Alexander is Secretary of State for International Development, not ‘a treasury minister’ Peter.

By: BLOGDIAL » Blog Archive » Britain is dying – action is needed now

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:24:21 +0000

[...] the restrictive regulations. (To give an example of how desperate these regulations have become, read this, punishment for attempting self [...]

By: The Economic Voice

The Economic Voice — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:06:57 +0000

The banks should be paying a levy to the Credit Unions to help put right what they got so badly wrong.

By: Britain is dying

Britain is dying — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:04:13 +0000

[...] the restrictive regulations. (To give an example of how desperate these regulations have become, read this, punishment for attempting self [...]

By: Simon Jerram

Simon Jerram — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:54:05 +0000

I can see the logic of getting successful large institutions to share their portion of the bill, because their actions contributed to the climate in which similar institutions failed.

Credit unions on the other hand…

The problem, partially, has been that some banks have got too big to fail and too unfocussed to be responsible. The solution has been to bail out bigger institutions, while forcing smaller ones to merge or be bought out. This may cure the symptoms of the banking crisis, while worsening the cause.

By: Mark Reckons

Mark Reckons — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:41:08 +0000

Good work Peter. I have blogged on this myself here:

http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-are-credit-unions-being-made-to.html

I am also trying to encourage people to tweet using the hashtag #NoCreditUnionLevy

By: Peter Black

Peter Black — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:19:34 +0000

It is new. I have written to Treasury and drawn Vince Cable’s attention to it.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:44 +0000

Has WAG taken a position on this – or is this a ‘new’ revelation?

By: The banks won’t help you, but you must help the banks « What You Can Get Away With

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:17:05 +0000

[...] news from Peter Black this morning that the FSA will be introducing an extra charge on Credit Unions (totalling around £8.5m) to help [...]

By: citizenx

citizenx — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:12:51 +0000

Thank you for highlighting this story Peter, I wouldn’t have known of it otherwise.

I think they speak for me when they say

“The board of directors consider that the demand for any exceptional levy is immoral and unreasonable and we are therefore not prepared to authorise any payment in this respect.”

Lets hope someone in government see sense.