Media Centre
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09 Mar
2012
For immediate release:
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“The latest round of eye-watering pay packages announced today for Britain’s top bankers confirms that they live in a different reality to the rest of us.
“Meanwhile ordinary people are left to pick up the pieces in an economy still flat-lining after the banks caused the biggest financial crisis in a generation.
“What more evidence does the government need that the time has now...
09 Mar
2012
For immediate release:
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“The pockets of Bob Diamond and his fellow bankers are busting at the seams from their multi-million pound pay packets, whilst the Exchequer is being left short by the bank’s tax avoidance measures.
“The government’s stand-off approach to ensuring banks pay their fair share to society isn’t working. Such excessive rewards are a clear sign the financial sector can afford to...
28 Feb
2012
For immediate release:
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“Avoiding paying hundreds of millions in tax is no way for Barclays to demonstrate its good citizenship at a time when the country is still suffering the devastating effects of the last financial crisis.”
“The Government is right to claw back this money, but must do more to ensure the financial sector pays its way.
“It is all the more outrageous because Barclays profits are...
27 Feb
2012
For immediate release:
Owen Tudor, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“This is yet more evidence that while the public suffer the greatest squeeze in living standards since World War II, bankers are happily coining it in.
“HSBC enjoys such stratospheric profits and bonuses because like the other big UK banks they are effectively underwritten by the taxpayer. Instead of wringing his hands about the fact the UK has ‘run out of money’, George Osborne...
23 Feb
2012
For immediate release:
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“Here’s yet more proof that bankers operate on a different planet to the rest of us.
“It cannot be right that our government stands on the sidelines and permits such rampant rewards whilst the rest of us pay for the sector’s past mistakes with jobs losses and cuts to services.
“While it cracks down on public spending the Government is running a welfare state for bankers...
23 Feb
2012
Commenting on stories suggesting investment bankers at RBS will share a bonus pot £400m David Hillman Robin Hood Tax campaign spokesperson, said:
“It is incredible that while the rest of us suffer, a loss-making bank bailed out by the taxpayer is allowed to pay out hundreds of millions in bonuses.
“The British public is getting a raw deal from RBS and the wider financial sector: it is time they were made to pay their fair share rather than line their own pockets.”...
23 Feb
2012
Embargoed until: 00.01hrs, Wednesday 23 February
CEOs call on PM to back Robin Hood Tax as banks get ready to announce billions in bonuses
The CEOs of 40 organisations including Oxfam, the TUC, Actionaid, CAFOD, The Salvation Army and Friends of the Earth have written to David Cameron to express concern that the financial sector still has not been made to pay its fair share to society.
The organisations, all members of the Robin Hood Tax campaign, have written ahead of RBS and Lloyds...
22 Feb
2012
Robin Hood Tax bank bonus season media brief:
Society works for bankers: it should be the other way around
Full media brief available here.
With RBS, Lloyds and HSBC still to release results, this year’s bank bonus season is proving once again that banks live in a parallel universe to the rest of us.
The Government appears to have U-turned on making banks pay their fair share. Dropping the phrase ‘that we are all in this together...
14 Feb
2012
For immediate release:
David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“Boris is repeating scare stories about an FTT to protect the privileged few in the City. It’s curious that the Mayor of London is saying ‘no’ to billions in additional revenue that could help protect public services and the poorest in the capital and beyond.
“Boris seems to have forgotten that the antics of the financial sector cost the UK economy at least a trillion. It...
13 Feb
2012
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David Hillman, spokesperson for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said:
“Project Merlin was weak in substance and conjured up by the banks, yet still the targets were missed.
“If the government really wants the banks to contribute more to our economy and society ministers must do more. The Prime Minister pledged that if Project Merlin targets were not reached then the government would consider new taxes on the banks. Now is the time to honour that commitment....