don't ask me to lend you any money I'm a bit skint after I lent my last £50billion to the banks

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

Inevitably, but I earn above the average and make none of it in the financial sector. Why should I pay more than anyone else?

NEVER AGAIN must this happen.

Sack the government and senior bankers
Vote in anyone who can offer fiscal prudence
Claw back money paid in bonusses to the city

stuart, Middlesbrough,

What is there to say ? I'm no NuLab, but the mess made by banks has to be sorted fast.
I got caught badly in the 1990-92 lot - interest rates went up into double figures,
This time The banks people had better be 'sorted' and sorted properly this time....we don't need this

Ron Allen, Sacy, France

I'm amazed at Labour, l had written them off....but they have
come up with a plan which will right the economy and not
giving money away but buying assets that over time will
probably make a profit. Mandy in the cabinet, Labour is coming back from the dead. Tories we need Ken Clarke
back.

Roger, Weymouth, UK

I hope the Government has the sense to raise taxes disproportionately on the highest earners. If this bail-out is to be politically acceptable the average taxpayer must feel that the wealthiest are bearing more than their fair share of the burden.

sheila, LEICESTER,

The banks' trade is to borrow low and lend high. In the process, they took deposits from all of us; we thought our money was perfectly safe. Then the banks got things wrong, and incurred a global run. So now we, the taxpayers, have to pay extra just to have a better chance of keeping what is ours.

Tom Welsh, Basingstoke,

The Nationalisation of the Banks will be at the expense of pension funds and those who are saving for their retirement. If the Government wishes to takeover the banks for policy reasons, then they should be prepared to pay a fair price to the longterm shareholders or start their own state banks

S Yogarajah, Harrow, England