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Banker levy

Ed Balls has a pop at George Osborne for raising the bank levy by £ 800 Million.

A bit rich - no pun intended - coming from a man whose boss, Gordon Brown, handed the banks £ 1,300 Billion bailout money.

Still, thanks to that on-going £200 Billion "quantitative easing", in return for the extra £ 800 million levy the banks give us, we're giving them much, much more.

Gordon Brown's legacy is state subsidised banker bonuses.  What do you suppose Keir Hardie would make of it?   

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