Greens Claim Banking Not Fit For Purpose – So What’s The Alternative?

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The Financial Times (subscription required) reports that the Green Party believes that the “the existing banking system has failed and is no longer fit for purpose”.  It would retain the UK government stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, which were part-nationalised during the financial crisis, and use them to create a “People’s Bank” that would “in effect be a high street branch of the Bank of England”.

Retail and investment banking would be separated and no institution would be allowed to operate in both markets simultaneously. In response, critics have said that the Greens are making a policy out of putting the country into a state of permanent recession, which would hurt living standards, not raise them.

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