Asset sales
Roll up, roll up
The government gears up to flog bits of itself to the private sector
Jun 24th 2010
Friday February 10th 2012
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Surely I'm not the first to think of it! While looking for family silver to flog off, why not sell a few bits and pieces of any spare BANKS that the government recently aquired? You know, anything with Royal on it...