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Published Date: 01 December 2008
I am surprised that you find it "unclear" why the Westminster government is so determined to see HBOS taken over by Lloyds TSB (your report, 29 November), for many of your readers, as your letters page has repeatedly shown, find it as clear as daylight.
Scotland's banks have been one of the mainstays of the nation's economy; their destruction as independent institutions will seriously damage Scotland's financial capability; and this – the government hopes – will weaken the case and the desire for Scottish independence. It is as simple, as blatant, and as shameless, as that. Are we going to let them off with it?

J DERRICK McCLURE

Rosehill Terrace

Aberdeen





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  • Last Updated: 30 November 2008 8:12 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Amanda Huginkiss,

01/12/2008 11:47:20
Is this guy for real? Obviously has no shares in the bank.
2

Gdgy,

01/12/2008 15:39:55
So preventing HBOS from going the tubes by supporting the merger was an act designed by the UK gov to upset the economic case for independence?
Paranoid delusion!
I suppose letting HBOS disappear as a "Scottish" bank would be preferable to seeing it be merged???
What utter transparent rot....
The SNPites did nothing, had no ideas and are now casting around for a way to spin their way out of this hole.....

 

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