There's a simple ethics test.  You walk into a pub and there's a twenty pound note on the table.  You know it's not yours.  Do you pocket it or do you leave it?  Discuss.

Government proposals to fund the Big Society by raiding 'dormant' bank accounts suggest that they would soundly fail the test.  How can the government believe it is acceptable to use money in dormant bank accounts for any purpose?

A bank account necessarily belongs to the person who deposited it there. In today's modern climate, with all the checks and balances to protect against money-laundering and terrorist funding, it's inconceivable that any account could ever become truly lost.

How pathetic and supine are our banks for letting them do this.  And how pathetic are we for allowing our politicians to fleece us once through the taxation system and now again by stealing money straight from our bank accounts.

It was bad enough from Labour.  But the Conservatives have proven themselves to be equally immoral.  They should call a halt to this disgusting plan, immediately.

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Filed under: Ethics, Politics with tags banks, big society, conservatives, dormant bank accounts, labour, money laundering