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  Am I missing something here? I was under the impression that we as a nation are in such massive debt because one of the main things Labour spent our money on over the last couple of years was bank bail-outs, costing billions of tax pounds. Is the new Con-Lib government going to make the banks pay any of this back? Wouldn't this help with the forthcoming cuts, job losses, tax rises and so on? Won't it ease at least some of the pain ahead? Surely if a fair chunk of the crisis we are now in happened because we forked out to keep f*****g bankers warm and cosy in their big bonus hand-outs then surely we should now start seeing this as the rip-off that it really was rather than an essential action to rescue the economy. I hope the new government has the balls to squeeze cash out of the banks - not just new taxes and strict rules, but get back all our tax quids instead of letting them continue to wallow in their own fatcat litter trays while we struggle to do the most basic things like pay an electric bill.
  
  I believe a better strategy would have been to give the British public that bail-out money. Seriously - the amount they poured into banks was staggering. If they'd given it to us instead, we could have all paid off or reduced our mortgages with it, which means the banks would have still been given a huge cash boost, plus we'd all have had more to spend in the economy thanks to reduced mortgages which would have made the economy a lot more lively. The government could then have reclaimed that money through taxes and less serious cuts, but everyone (and the economy) would at least be better off.
  
  But anyway, to the banks - WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!

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