{"id":6490,"date":"2010-03-30T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2010-03-30T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:16:28","slug":"is-the-peoples-bank-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/30\/is-the-peoples-bank-on-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the People&#8217;s Bank on its way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/mar\/29\/post-office-banking-banks\"> Post Office told to cut Bank of Ireland ties as it expands banking services | \t\t\t\tBusiness | \t\t\t\tThe Guardian <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The New Economics Foundation has campaigned for some time for a People's Bank, and I have supported it in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Now it looks like it may be on its way - based in Post Offices.<\/p>\n<p>There are three pre-conditions:<\/p>\n<p>1) Cut the existing contract with the bakrupt Bank of Ireland - on the grounds that it is bankrupt<\/p>\n<p>2) Make this bank a state owned entity<\/p>\n<p>3) Train high quality staff to work for it. This must be no second rate operation.<\/p>\n<p>We need it, now. It's a scandal that even now vast numbers of people in this country have no proper access to properly regulated and reasonably priced financial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post Office told to cut Bank of Ireland ties as it expands banking services | Business | The Guardian . The New Economics Foundation has<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/03\/30\/is-the-peoples-bank-on-its-way\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}