And all this brouhaha about huge directors' bonuses - bonus £1,000,000 pass £400,000 straight to Alastair.
Cut the bonus, increase profits, and Alastair still takes his cut with corporation tax. So what really focusses their attention is lower pay, bonus and profit which all hit the tax take.
Give the banks £10bn and £4bn comes straight back and another £900m in VAT. And of course another slice in fuel tax, road tax, car tax etc etc. Win-win for someone. I would be surprised if the treasury actually forked out more than £3bn.