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Darling we need to invest more on 3rd sector social enterprises whom directly deliver Government targets, your office or OTs should redistribute these money in to a Credit unions, rather than handing over the money to third party quangos who aren’t elected or commonalty banks. These social business groups Create jobs for themselves or to their friends and family. The quangos are employed commercial bankers who do not have a clue about the social entrepreneur’s life. I am as a social entrepreneur applied on several initiatives created by the government, as social investment loan finance from the moment we heard about the crunch, until today it has not been successful effort. Due to the fact that the selection criteria is made by the same red tape. The money you have allocated to the sector is diverged in to the SE who holds the millions pounds of reserves, not to the social enterprises who’re struggling to keep up with the jobs and their inspirational projects, they do not get the priority as their bank accounts are empty. Rather than individual SME’s of SE community who really touch peoples lives by enabling themselves and the others to lift them out of poverty. We believe in creating conditions where people can enable themselves lifting themselves out of poverty. So what do you going to do about it?

The sum of UK bank bonuses this year will be a shade lower than £100bln, which funnily enough is not far off the public sector shortfall -- do you plan to tax citizens yet again for the shortfall, or would you consider taking some of that money back directly from the bankers?

Is now the time for the UK to join the Euro ?