Bailing out UK banks has cost each British family £ 4.350 claim Tories
The British government’s plan to pump a further £25.5 billion of taxpayers’ money into Royal Bank of Scotland means the cost of the banking bailout has reached £4,350 for every family in the UK.
The Conservatives have claimed the extra bailout cash will cost £2,000 for every one of the 17 million families in the country.
According to shadow chancellor George Osborne, the £2,000 per family covers the cost of the £ 25.5 billion the government has given to RBS plus a further £8 billion it has earmarked for the bank should its tier one capital fall below 5%.
According to Tory calculations, every household already shoulders a £2,350 bailout burden as the result of the £74 billion the government has already ploughed into RBS, Lloyds and HBOS since last year. Yesterday’s news takes that burden to £4,350.
Speaking at the House of Commons Osborne accused Labour of not even being prepared to put the full cost of the bailout - £39.2 billion – before the Commons.
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