BRANSON'S BID ACCEPTED BY GOVT

Optimistic as ever , I have just joined a Facebook campaign group to Nationalise Northern Rock. But it looks as though the £900-plus of my money as a taxpayer which has already been ploughed into it will now be appropriated by Richard Branson and eventually make a nice fat proft for both Branson his shareholders. The Government has just confirmed it will back his bid to absorb Northern Rock into "Virgin Money." What a woeful lack of radical imagination on the Govt's part. And a woeful waste of public money....