Richard Burgon MP: It’s time for a windfall tax on bank super profits
‘Three quarters of the public support a windfall tax on banks’ excess profits – including 76% of Conservative 2019 voters’
‘Three quarters of the public support a windfall tax on banks’ excess profits – including 76% of Conservative 2019 voters’
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it has found no evidence showing banks have shut or denied accounts to customers based primarily on their political beliefs.
“I know you’ve run seven times and lost seven times …”
‘The closure of bank branches increases commercial decline of villages and town centres’
In the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the world’s 60 largest private sector banks financed fossil fuels with $4.6 trillion.
‘Compare the inhuman treatment of pensioners and other vulnerable groups with welfare programme operated for the benefit of finance industry and speculators.’
‘NatWest could have been transformed into a people’s bank…but the government has shown no vision.’
The US regards the UK as a “higher risk jurisdiction” on money laundering.
Labour’s public inquiry into banking and finance industry is a real chance to hold miscreants to account, says Prem Sikka.
Only a fraction of the British public support the governments plan to flog RBS by any means necessary