The government may not wish people to know who these banks are, but they assume we are all dumb! Check out bank shares on the LSE and see how they are now going up or down by percentage points divorcing from each other - then you realise that the city fly boys know exactly who is getting what.

- Peter, Oxfordshire

Is the following scenario possible:
Banks swap mortgages for iron cast government bonds, then engineer a property crash so that they can buy back their mortgages with the bonds and keep the difference?

We now have a situation where it is in the banks' interest to actively pursue a property crash of epic proportions.

- Karl, Hampshire

BoE, Federal Reserve - all private banks feeding into the move to a new world order, producing Money, no longer backed by gold, just paper representing digits on a computer - worthless! An illusion. He who controls the money supply controls the world.

- H Phillips, South Gloucestershire

This BoE lending out £50+ of our money to banks which caused credit inflation and credit crunch due to their extreme greed is an example that all parties involved are in cahoots. The other day Marvin King, the BoE governor, was sanctimoniously complaining about excessive bonuses paid in recent past to the City bankers to be the reason behind the credit crunch. Mr King, have you and your henchmen in BoE been sleeping during this time? Could not you see what was coming? Do you want us to believe that you and other BoE principals are that ignorant and stupid?

I think only a class-action law suit against BoE and the banks for complete disclosure and government lending out money directly are the answers. Otherwise these blood-suckers are going to take every drop of our blood. BoE is a ruse. Most of the people in the UK think that it is a government organisation. It is the largest for profit private bank. I want BoE to respond to my charges.

- Dr Alok K Bhattacharyya, London

Gold Standard Now, Gold Standard Now, Gold Standard Now

- Blueyblogger, Cairns Australia

This is, quite simply, an outrage. Right in front of the peoples eyes - a media blackout. Announced. When will the revolution happen?

- R, St Albans

And for Brits, check out if you can, the London Herald, February 8, 1920 where Sir Winston Churchill published an article condemning the Illuminati and warning the British public of a worldwide conspiracy against morality. For our American cousins, one year later Woodrow Wilson made three radio broadcasts warning of growing Illuminati control over the US banking system.'There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive, that none had better speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it'. John F Kennedy made a similar speech. What happened to these great men who dared speak up? Two consigned to the dustbin of history, one murdered. Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, having the foresight to state that 'all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that amongst these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' knew all those years ago - time now for retribution.

- Peter, Oxfordshire

Dr Ashley, Huntingdon. Northern Rock was not about saving a bank, but saving voters confidence in a venal, greedy government in the Labour heartlands - where many of the people dealing with this bank reside! They knew that labour voters with interests in this bank would vote anything but labour for the rest of their days if they let it fail, had it been based in Surrey with Surrey folk the main users, you can bet your bottom dollar they would have left it to fail.

- Peter, Oxfordshire

It seems a similar scheme, is going on here on the other side of the Atlantic. Both schemes (you may call them scams, if you prefer) rely on you the tax payer to bail out the very same banks that have been scamming us all along. Well, if you had enough you may consider hiding your money so that the cash hungry indecent politicians have no taxes to collect and no tricks left in their hats.

- Costas, Connecticut

In my opinion, it's possible that it's not just stigma they are concerned about.
Can it be more subtle than that.
This suggests to me that the magnitude of assistance to a particular bank will reflect on the irresponsibility/ financial instability of that bank.
I want to know how much the banks are getting.
Then steer well clear of those after the larger amounts.
Or better still, avoiding all banks using this system.
For my own security, surely I have the right to know in this so called democracy.
However, thinking it through a bit more.
The BoE may keep tight lipped, but there will be enough employees at banks who will leak the information, especially when they are made redundant.

- Np, England

That this is to be done in secret is not what bothers me so much as where this £50bn is coming from. I suspect it is being created out of thin air, which means tax by inflation for the general public. Why should we have to pay for the banks mess? Let them go bust and they might stop acting like cowboys

- Anonymous, anonymous

That this is to be done in secret is not what bothers me so much as where this £50bn is coming from. I suspect it is being created out of thin air, which means tax by inflation for the general public. Why should we have to pay for the banks mess? Let them go bust and they might stop acting like cowboys

- Anonymous, anonymous

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