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Interesting bit of trivia - the organisation set up to distribute the English "bailout" eventually evolved into what became the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) which was then itself bailed out with vast amounts of taxpayers money in the 2007/2008 financial crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_of_Scotland




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