Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Why have trillions been put into the European banking system and still the money is not going back into the European economy, which is being suffocated? The European economy is contracting and there is a major strike of private sector investment which has collapsed across Europe. Those are the facts. When are we going to wake up and assert control over the banking system which we have re-financed? Do we not have the right to do that? Is it not an absolutely urgent priority that we do it? It seems obvious to me that it is.

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