Petition to Number 10 - stop these greedy bankers

Letter written to accompany a petition sent to Number 10 Downing Street in October 2008 by Nick Johnson.

Our Money Our Choice.

Dear Prime Minister,

As we all know these are difficult times that we are in and I’m sure that makes your job even tougher than it would be normally. You must however be made to understand that it has affected everyones lives and that it is our money you are using to bail out the inept bankers who have put us all in this situation including yourself.
We the British nation did not vote you into power, neither did we give you permission to use 50 billion pounds of our money to bail the bankers out, by the time we have finnished I’m sure the amount of money we will have put into our failing markets will be much higher.
As a well respected businesman myself, if I had to put that sort of money into another business to keep it afloat I would look long and hard at the management team that had caused the mess in the first place.
I call for two things.
Firstly, a restructuring of our banking system top to bottom, by that I mean, put in measures that make sure this can never happen again and get rid of, or sack the people responsible for this mess both in the banking industry and Government.
Secondly. If you are going to use large sums of our money, I for one would like a say in the way it is used. I would like to have some control over to who and when, I lend my money. I would like a referendum on the subject seeing as I will be one of millions of people who will have to pick up the bill.
We all make mistakes, but if we make a huge one at work then we normally find ourselves unemployed, can you please tell me how it is possible the people concerned are still working in the same office on the same inflated salaries as if nothing has happened.

Yours Sincerley,

Nick Johnson