RBS’S penance

Christine Jar dine is clearly bedazzled by the charity work now being carried out by RBS, and uses it as another stick with which to beat the Covidbeset UK government (Scotsman, 26 October)

While she glows with admiration of the reborn bank, she seems to have forgotten it only got here thanks to the same UK Government bailing it out with £45 billion of tax payers’ money – cash that might well have helped reduce poverty in the population in the first place. The bank bailout helped bring about the austerity which crippled our welfare resources.

Some acts of penance are to be welcomed but this bank surely needs to go much further than distributing some food hampers to the people it helped impoverish..

RODNEY PINDER Abbotsford Grove, Kelso