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Barclays Bank Brixton closed down by UK Uncut protesters

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There's reports of 41 Barclays banks closed over the UK so far too.

http://www.urban75.org/blog/barclays-bank-brixton-closed-down-by-uk-uncut-protesters/
 
Really useful for those who need to use the bank on Saturdays because they can't get to them during the week.

Good job I didn't need to go to Barclays this morning.
 
Just think, aj, if the govt and tax dodging corps weren't selling us up the swannee you'd probably have been able to find a suitable job and move out of Brixton like you've wanted to do for a long time.
 
So the local government cutbacks, the economy in general and everything else is all the fault of Sandra the bank teller who works in Barclays Brixton eh?
 
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What a clueless, point-missing div you are.
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As are most lefties who protest against anything without actually hitting the target.

So what have Barclays done this time, and why the "Books not bonuses" link?
 
ajdown said:
So the local government cutbacks, the economy in general and everything else is all the fault of Sandra the bank teller who works in Barclays Brixton eh?
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Perhaps the mysterious Sandra the bank teller who works in Barclays Brixton was outside with the protester too? Perhaps she actually gives a fuck about public services too.
 
ajdown said:
As are most lefties who protest against anything without actually hitting the target.

So what have Barclays done this time, and why the "Books not bonuses" link?
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Reading the links provided in the opening post is often a good way to avoid looking like a knee jerking, ill-informed idiot.
 
They paid some tax. Big deal.

Barclays wasn't one of the bailed out banks, was it? Or at least it would have been if RBS had stopped one bid earlier because Barclays would have then ended up with ABN Amro and they'd be in shit street instead of everyone harping on at RBS, and blaming "everyone involved in banking" for things that probably aren't even their fault or the right bank.

Is a leftie ever happy, or do they have to spend every weekend complaining and protesting about something?
 
ajdown said:
They paid some tax. Big deal.

Barclays wasn't one of the bailed out banks, was it? Or at least it would have been if RBS had stopped one bid earlier because Barclays would have then ended up with ABN Amro and they'd be in shit street instead of everyone harping on at RBS, and blaming "everyone involved in banking" for things that probably aren't even their fault or the right bank.

Is a leftie ever happy, or do they have to spend every weekend complaining and protesting about something?
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How the fuck do you equate rampant capitalism with your christianity? Is there some feelgood factor about raising money for poor little orphans i faraway countries cos the banks came in and raped the natural resources?
 
ajdown said:
Is a leftie ever happy, or do they have to spend every weekend complaining and protesting about something?
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Yesh! What's the matter with those stupid old people trying to save their libraries and local services while the bankers are trousering obscene bonuses? And anyone who bothered to make a fuss about the Tories attempts to sell off our forests and woodland must have been a right old moaner.

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I think you mean "some" bankers are trousering obscene bonuses. That I agree with you totally.

However, how does making the staff in a branch feel threatened so they have to close up, and stopping people paying a bill on a saturday actually achieve in addressing the bonuses?

Complain about the bosses, sure - but your beef is not with the actual workers. It's not their fault where they work, maybe it's the only job they could get. They aren't responsible for the actions of their bosses.
 
ajdown said:
They paid some tax. Big deal.

Barclays wasn't one of the bailed out banks, was it?
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To all intents and purposes it was, as at the time the government made guarantees to protect the deposits.

I would have thought you'd have known that
 
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To all intents and purposes it was, as at the time the government made guarantees to protect the deposits.

I would have thought you'd have known that
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But did Barclays get themselves into the position where they needed government assistance? Not that I know of.

Every single person on this board surely has a bank account, as it's impossible to function in today's society without one. So extrapolating your logic, everyone here is equally as guilty in the banking fiasco.
 
ajdown said:
But did Barclays get themselves into the position where they needed government assistance? Not that I know of.

Every single person on this board surely has a bank account, as it's impossible to function in today's society without one. So extrapolating your logic, everyone here is equally as guilty in the banking fiasco.
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Not everybody has a bank account in the Caymans/Barbados/Jersey/etc, however.
 
ajdown said:
I certainly don't. I wonder how many Urbanites do though?
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Then you almost certainly won't benefit by any of this.

I can understand why anybody on the left would be against banks evading tax.

But I have no idea why so many ordinary people, especially on the right, apologise for corporate greed when they have absolutely nothing to gain from cheerleading for it.
 
ajdown said:
They paid some tax. Big deal.
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You seem to have spectacularly missed the point here, aj.

Yes, Barclays paid "some" tax. They paid £113m in UK corporation tax in 2009, which considering they showed a profit of £11.6bn works out at a rate of 1 per cent. However, corporation tax in the UK actually stands at 28 per cent, which they managed to swerve by a series of overseas registrations. So if they had paid the other 27 per cent that they owed, there would be £2599m extra in the coffers to pay for stuff like, say, libraries.

That's why people are angry and protesting.

How can you argue with that?
 
Are you sure that money would have ended up saving libraries - since you used that example? Might it not be spent on a necessary road improvement service, or our armed services, or something else?

After all, sometimes "cutting services" isn't necessarily a bad thing if they are under-used and several similar places in close proximity. Isn't it better to lose a duplicated library than something unique?
 
ajdown said:
Are you sure that money would have ended up saving libraries - since you used that example? Might it not be spent on a necessary road improvement service, or our armed services, or something else?

After all, sometimes "cutting services" isn't necessarily a bad thing if they are under-used and several similar places in close proximity. Isn't it better to lose a duplicated library than something unique?
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The fact is, it is not ending up going towards anything, except moving out of the country into an offshore bank account.

How can you support this? You gain absolutely nothing from apologizing for this. In fact, more than gaining absolutely nothing, you are losing out.

The only people this benefits are millionaires.
 
ajdown said:
Are you sure that money would have ended up saving libraries - since you used that example? Might it not be spent on a necessary road improvement service, or our armed services, or something else?

After all, sometimes "cutting services" isn't necessarily a bad thing if they are under-used and several similar places in close proximity. Isn't it better to lose a duplicated library than something unique?
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You're a creationist. Game over.
 
Unless you are incredibly wealthy, you are losing out in many ways.

I get the impression you are not incredibly wealthy, therefore, like the rest of us, are getting shafted.

Yet you are apologising for the people who are shafting you. Why? You get nothing for defending them. You just get shafted like everybody else.
 
ajdown said:
Are you sure that money would have ended up saving libraries - since you used that example? Might it not be spent on a necessary road improvement service, or our armed services, or something else?

After all, sometimes "cutting services" isn't necessarily a bad thing if they are under-used and several similar places in close proximity. Isn't it better to lose a duplicated library than something unique?
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It doesn't matter what the money might have been used for, the point is that it would have been used for something to benefit us all - be that road improvements, libraries, the armed forces, or lollipop ladies (who are being axed in Lambeth under the cuts).

So how can you argue against the protests?
 
In fact, further than what has already been said, we are all going to be taxed more heavily because banks are paying so much less.

Why are you supporting higher tax for yourself? Do you like paying more tax?

:confused:
 
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