The Bailout Refund Project

Bank cuts rates, starts QE - total bail out hits £1.27 trillion*

So how much is everyone in the country contributing towards this? Personally I would have liked to spend the money somewhere other than, er, the Bank.....

UK Population = 60 975 000

So; £1.27 Trillion / 60,975,000 = £20828.20p

£20,828.20p per UK Citizen to 'help' the banks.

I really haven't felt that I've gotten value for my money so far, in fact...........

I want my bailout money back! ....... Anyone check the receipts?

Instead of giving our money to the already dying banking system in various bizarre and inventive ways, they could have given £20,828.20p to every living citizen in the UK...

It's not gonna solve everyone's problems, but surely better than throwing our money into the abyss of the banking system?

* Edit from 11:11:09

Just found this link to update you on how the mainstream media have taken this story and run with it (5months after the above blog), seems in that time the numbers have racked up a bit:

New calculations by the BBC, based on IMF data given to G20 finance ministers, shows these countries have spent a total of $10 trillion (£6tn).

The UK and US spent the most, with the UK spending far more, 94% of its GDP compared to 25% in the US.

That equates to £30,000 per person in the UK and $10,000 in the US.

To emphasise once again that i'd much prefer to spend my taxpayers pound somewhere other than the bank......It is a strange game the Government are playing, has anyone explained the rules to them?

G20 - London's "Riots"

"The trouble makers are out in force again. Dressed in black, their faces partly obscured, some of them appear to be interested only in violent confrontation. It's almost as if they are deliberately raising the temperature, pushing and pushing until a fight kicks off. But this isn't some disorganised rabble: these people were bussed in and are plainly acting in concert. There's another dead giveaway. They are all wearing the same slogan: Police." Guardian.co.uk

At least there are some bits of mainstream media that is giving the real story, rather than the all too transparent game of calling these peaceful protestors, 'anarchists'. I'm not denying there will be a few there to cause trouble, but far fewer than you think.


Here's the mission statement and values direct from the London Metropolitan Police website

Our mission

• Working together for a safer London

Our values

Working together with all our citizens, all our partners, all our colleagues:

• We will have pride in delivering quality policing. There is no greater priority
• We will build trust by listening and responding
• We will respect and support each other and work as a team
• We will learn from experience and find ways to be even better

We are one team - we all have a duty to play our part in making
London safer.

Here is some footage of the Police ignoring all of the above:







Of course the Police would never even consider deliberately incite the crowd would they?

G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'

MP demands inquiry into Met tactics at demo

An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds.

Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.

Oh and if you think this sort of behaviour is unheard of, how about this footage from the G20 protest in Australia in 2006:




Or maybe even this little gem from the Montebello North American leaders summit in Montebello, Quebec, Canada, where you can see the undercover police trying to incite a riot from within the ranks of the peaceful protestors:



Tricky to manage a peacful protest, perhaps just making sure that you are embodying truth in your day to day life , rather than just binging on truth at the occasional protest, where you also run the risk of being mangled by the Police.