The Mail on Sunday Attacks Irish Banks

[ArtyQueing]

I see the British edition of the Mail on Sunday is attacking the Irish banks. Jeff Prestridge describes the Bank of Ireland as covered by the rocky Irish economy and claimed it was an untested scheme, (which I thought meant that the bank had not went bust and is therefor a good thing).
The next page Tony Hetherington has an article were he prints a letter from someone called CD which says "I spotted that advisors were not happy with the Irish banks so I decided to take our money out" In his reply to the letter the article writer says"The bigger picture, though, is that the Post Office marketed Bank of Ireland accounts on the basis that savers were protected by the UK compensation scheme. Now that the Bank of Ireland has pulled out of that scheme, the Post Office should be using its Government-backed muscle to get people their money back."

No mention of the better terms the bank of Ireland has under our government.

It ois plain that the Mail, a paper of the English establishment, is fighting against the Irish bank and economy following the recent upsurge in English people banking with it. I cannot recall them warning anyone about the demise of Dunfermline Building Society. Odd that - isn't it?

[conservative green]

I see the British edition of the Mail on Sunday is attacking the Irish banks. Jeff Prestridge describes the Bank of Ireland as covered by the rocky Irish economy and claimed it was an untested scheme, (which I thought meant that the bank had not went bust and is therefor a good thing).
The next page Tony Hetherington has an article were he prints a letter from someone called CD which says "I spotted that advisors were not happy with the Irish banks so I decided to take our money out" In his reply to the letter the article writer says"The bigger picture, though, is that the Post Office marketed Bank of Ireland accounts on the basis that savers were protected by the UK compensation scheme. Now that the Bank of Ireland has pulled out of that scheme, the Post Office should be using its Government-backed muscle to get people their money back."

No mention of the better terms the bank of Ireland has under our government.

It ois plain that the Mail, a paper of the English establishment, is fighting against the Irish bank and economy following the recent upsurge in English people banking with it. I cannot recall them warning anyone about the demise of Dunfermline Building Society. Odd that - isn't it?

The Mail is not really the paper of the English establishment. The English/British establishment is New Labour these days, the Mail hate the Labour party (both 'Old' and 'New' variants) and papers like the Mail and the Torygraph have been talking of problems in the UK economy long before New Labour supporting organs (The Times, the Grauniad) did so.

But, granted, there might be a slight bit of the old style 'The Paddy's are thick. But also devious and not to be trusted' (a traditional theme of the Mail, especially in the 80's) underlying the sentiment in these kind of articles, as their own banks are just as f.ucked.