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100,000 back Christie on bank losses
Reporter: OUR LOBBY CORRESPONDENT
Date online: 08 May 2009
CAMPAIGNERS last night stepped up pressure on Gordon Brown to compensate Christie’s for the £6.5 million it lost when the Icelandic bank collapsed.
Cancer patients, fund-raisers and Christie charity representatives delivered a 100,000-name petition to Downing Street calling for the Prime Minister to act.
The campaign was launched in March in an attempt to overturn the decision made by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme that the Christie Charity would not be compensated for the £6.5 million it lost in the Icelandic banking collapse.
Lord Keith Bradley, chairman of the Christie charity, said: “This petition is a loud and passionate call for the Government to help to bring this money back to where it rightfully belongs.”
The petition was delivered 24 hours after the Prime Minister was accused of standing in the way of Christie’s getting compensated.
The charity raises around £13 million a year to support Christie’s.
Last month the Commons powerful treasury select committee report recommended that the charity should be compensated.
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Stupid administrators chasing the last .0001% even when they were warned it was going to happen they failed to transfer the funds. Let the Admin pay from their own pockets before the taxpayer should step in. BTW friend is being treated there so I am involved
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The directors and other middle class employers invested in something that went to the wall.TO BAD,I DIDN`T SEE THEM SAVING WOOLWORTHS THAT i HAD STOCK IN.
THEY SHOULD OF INVESTED IN AVIVA AND COLLECTED A HIGH YIELD AND GROWTH,RE TRACEMENT STOCK.
IF YOU HAVE THE SAME PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN RUNNING THE SHOW,THEN YOU GET THE SAME RESULT.SUCK IT UP!
By Alex de large @ 08/05/2009 13:01:07