Letter: Banking payback

Dennis Grattan (Letters, 30 August) suggests that with the banks now in profit again due to the huge difference between borrowing and savings interest rates, it's good news for the taxpayers who can now expect a quick repayment of the bailout money.

I imagine that he says this with tongue firmly in cheek, and am reminded of a Bilko episode in which his latest scheme is exposed as a con and one of his men says that now they'll have to give the guys their money back.

"Give them their money back!" says Bilko. "Are you new around here?"

Walter J Allan

Colinton Mains Drive

Edinburgh