Madam, – There is something so lacking in ethics about the shareholders of our banks being wiped out while their employees, the upper management, get away with taxpayers’ cash to get them off the hook. The damage the top people have done is the result of an incestuous relationship and has betrayed us all, and this group should be made to pay, if only to uphold some kind of standard in public and semi-public life.
The most profound thing the pope said in England was this: when ethics go, reason goes. – Yours, etc,