Media Centre
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21 Oct
2010
Max Lawson, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign says:
“Bankers today were let off the hook with the government’s £2.5 billion bank levy. It is small change for them and it will not pay for the economic mess they created.
“The day after £83 billion in cuts were announced, it makes a mockery of Cameron’s fairness agenda. The public have a right to ask why banks are not paying their fair share.
“George Osborne said banks should pay the...
20 Oct
2010
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign says:
“These cuts are not inevitable, they are a political choice. A fair Robin Hood Tax on the financial sector would allow George Osborne to avoid the worst of his cuts.
“George said today he will impose the maximum possible tax on banks. But words are not enough. As ordinary workers and families feel the pain of the cuts, he must go further than the dismal £2.5 billion bank levy. Banks can afford to pay...
19 Oct
2010
Max Lawson, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign (and Robin Hood in the picture) says:
“George Osborne should put his axe down and instead make the banks pay to clean up the mess they have created. That would be the simplest and fairest way to avoid some of the worst cuts, cuts that will hit the poor hardest.
“It can’t be right that bankers are rubbing their hands at the latest
round of record-breaking bonuses while ordinary people suffer cuts in the...
17 Oct
2010
The government has put ’fairness’ at the heart of its agenda, yet the Comprehensive Spending Review cuts will hit the poorest and most vulnerable hardest. B anks, which are largely responsible for the UK ’s fiscal troubles, will at the same time begin to announce record-breaking bonuses and pay.
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign says:
“As the latest round of record-breaking bonuses are announced bankers are rubbing their hands, while...
14 Oct
2010
What: Defying the cuts – Robin Hood Tax has the solution
This bold and amusing stunt will take place outside HM Treasury and will involve a George Osborne look-a-like wielding a giant axe towards a nurse, doctor, police man, school child and pensioner. Cowering in fear they will be protected from the worst of George Osborne’s cuts by Robin Hood. Robin’s over-sized shield will bear the message that Osborne should ‘tax banks instead’ – targeting the...
07 Oct
2010
Responding to the European Commission press release outlining its vision for taxing the financial sector, Max Lawson, a spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“The EC has responded to the public mood and has taken a significant step towards a Robin Hood Tax. Taxing big finance makes sense: it can curb dangerous casino capitalism whilst raising tens of billions to pay down our deficit and provide much needed money for the fight against poverty and climate change here...
21 Sep
2010
The Robin Hood Tax campaign responds to Nick Clegg and Vince Cable’s comments over bankers’ ‘gratuitously offensive’ bonuses that may be heading for a ‘train crash’.
Owen Tudor, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
‘The public are angry that deep cuts and tax rises are hitting them hard, whilst bankers are returning to record breaking profits and bonuses so soon after receiving a cool £1.5 trillion in bailout money. We welcome...
21 Sep
2010
Robin Hood Tax campaign responds to France and Spain’s calls to introduce a bank tax to help poor at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York and Ban Ki-Moon’s comments for world leaders not to “balance budgets on the backs of the poor”.
David Hillman, spokesperson of the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
‘The behaviour of the financial sector has jeopardised our chances of achieving the MDGs. Whilst banks return to record-breaking profit, for...
18 Sep
2010
As world leaders meet for the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York, 20-22 September, a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) highlights that because of the financial crisis around 120 million more people may now be living on less than US$2 a day and 89 million more on less than US$1.25 a day. The report shows that as a direct result of the crisis: output, exports, migrant remittances, capital inflows and aid have all been lower than expected over...
09 Aug
2010
The Robin Hood Tax Campaign is today launching Saving Challenge, a new initiative, aimed at reframing the public debate on the UK deficit by providing a viable alternative to the level of the proposed cuts.
Saving Challenge mimics the HM Treasury’s crowd-sourced initiative, Spending Challenge, which seeks suggestions from UK citizens on which cuts should be made to reduce the deficit.
Instead, the initiative from the Robin Hood Tax Campaign asks the public to supply its views, via a...