THE lasting legacy,10 years on from the banking crash and global financial crisis, has been one of leaving many people still suffering the consequences.
Alas, it has not been the banks and financial institutions that have paid the heaviest price; it has been ordinary, hard working families being hit by pay freezes and austerity cuts.
This in turn has plunged many of those hard working families into poverty and dependant on benefits.
How many bankers and financiers ended up on state benefits for survival ?
The Labour government of the day and and those since have gone for the easy option and penalised the vulnerable and defenceless while bailing out the bankers. I would suggest this was unforgivable.
Those actions spoke louder than words and the actions of successive government still speak louder than words at present, especially with regard to those who are still suffering the consequences.
To secure any kind of socially just society for all, lessons must be learned.
Catriona C Clark,
52 Hawthorn Drive,
Banknock,
Falkirk.
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