General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Banker’s bonuses: another Labour betrayal
We are lurching backwards politically now that both major parties are united in servicing the City before all else, writes BERNIE EVANS
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WITH plans to “unashamedly champion Britain’s financial services sector,” cut down on “10,000 pages of regulation,” and impose no windfall taxes on banks despite their record profits, it came as little surprise that a Labour government will not reinstate the cap on bankers’ bonuses.
In July last year, for example, Natwest announced half-year profits of £3.58 billion, up from £2.6bn the previous year.
Imagine how much they and the other profiteering banks will be paying in bonuses to people who will have contributed nothing towards the higher profits, which were simply made by the exploitation of British customers, delaying an increase in savings rates after raising them for borrowers immediately after the Bank of England announced hikes in the base rates.
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