I know this is going a bit off-topic but the news today is that part of Barclays (the investment bank bit) has 25,000 employees who's average (AVERAGE!) salary is over £200,000 pa. Obviously some of these people get a 'normal' wage but it shows what the income of the others is like. And this is before they get their annual bonus!
At the same time, these banks, which have so screwed up this country, have to pay their staff these enormous salaries and gigantic bonuses just to keep the best staff. If the best they can get can still bankrupt the whole island then we are better off without them.
The other item is the tax paid by these banks. The figures for Barclays is that they pay about £2 billion pa tax which sounds good but their bonus fund for this year is £2.3 billion. So the fat cats get more than the country does.
All this at a time when we desperately need more manufacturing and farming businesses which can't get essential funding from the banks. I know the banks are worth more than manufacturing to the economy but you can understand why when they won't lend on anything other than exorbitant rates when the Bank of England rate is at it's lowest ever in our history.
It all stinks