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The jingoistic attitudes on this site are worrying. Of course people in Scotland are upset about the loss of 300 years of a national institution, a totemic HQ and possibly the loss of distinctive bank notes. This has nothing to do with protecting Scottish jobs over English. I can't see the English-based new owners shifting their base north. I agree England is being let down by the lack of an English Parliament, but stupid accusations of "racism" are pathetic and unhelpful. It's not even the right word.

- Bert, Edinburgh, Scotland

What did you expect from a man who is a signatory to the Scottish claim of right and as such is honour bound to put all things Scottish first. This man has continuously defecated on the English and will carry on doing so.
Despite his rambling on about Britishness,he is an
anglophobe and always has been.

- Mr.K.Pinchard, Macmerry. East Lothian EH33 1PN.

Disgusting.

I hope the new merger means that the management are strong enough to say it is going to be run from the Lloyds HQ or is it going to be another case, as in Scotland - England, of the tail wagging the dog?

- Les, Essex, UK

When is the nasty man going to be sacked? When is the nasty "labour" party going to be routed?

- M Anderson, Mid-West, USA

IT'S TIME TO BREAK THE UK. The Scots, Welsh, and N.I receive far more money than people in England - and we pay all the taxes! And forget independence for Scotland - England will still then have to pay for Wales and N.I. The government showed thier contempt for the UK in 2007, the 300th aniversary of The Union. Were there any celebrations at all? Nothing! There was more fuss made over the 'entant cordial' we have with France (which means nothing!) in 2005.
BREAK THE UK - taxpayers in England have had enough!

- Steve S, London, England

If Mr Brown wants to be Prime Minister of Scotland only, then let him be it and we English will choose our own.

- Ann, West Midlands, ENGLAND

They bailed out Northern Rock to keep Labour voters in jobs. Put in on the tab!
Now they lean on TSB to keep Labour voters in jobs in Scotland.
What can you expect from a party that creates a client state of hundreds of thousands of government workers and welfare claimants.

- John, London

It is of course unacceptable for the British Prime Minister to lobby for one part of the Union at the expense of another for party political gain. But it is not just Scotland that Brown favours in this way. The Government has a consistent habit of promoting policies that favour Labour-voting areas (given recent opinion polls perhaps I ought to say former Labour-voting areas). So this is not so much a Scotland-Endland issue as a New Labour one. Those who feel that the Union is no longer relevnt because of the EU are I think mistaken. The more divided we are in these Islands the more we shall be pushed around by other EU countries, especially France and Germany. The Union has never been more relevant and we should not let the likes of New Labour or Alex Salmond deceive us into thinking otherwise. Very many families in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have familiy ties and loyalties with all parts of the Union. Political shysters should not be permitted to corrupt those ties.

- James Elliott, Eastbourne UK

TSB's job is to make a profit for its shareholders. Any pledge to Scottish workers is wrong and shows that the bank's management hasn't got a clue how to look after its depositors' and shareholders' money and interests. Sack the management - along with their cronies Brown and Darling!

- John Johnson, London, UK

Having most of my own and my company's finances with HBOS and having spent a very worrying 24hrs yesterday to find that all Brown is worried about is his Scottish electorate!!!!!
Time to go Gordon and take the rest of this so called government with you!!

- Mike Kimmins, Bexley Kent

Well what do people expect from a man like Brown who signed the Scottish Claim of Right and thereby promised "to make the interests of the Scottish people paramount".
Scottish patients come over the border to Carlisle hospital to get free treatment on the Scottish NHS that Carlisle folk have to pay for.
I'm English not British - and I never will be British whatever the SCOT Gordon Brown tries to demand of me.
What are our useless MPs in England going to do about it? Proclaim how proud they are of their Irish ancestry like Liam Byrne did just recently?
We need English MPs who care about England, the English and English jobs. And we need them in an English Parliament. The 'British' Parliament fails England.

- Stephen Gash, Carlisle England

England has suffered enough now - it's time for independence.

Let the Scotch men stand on their own feet. And take their odious and despicable MP's back as well.

- Ed P, London

By definition this is Rascism.

- N Grinsell, london

I have read this story in other papers too. This is absurd. The LaBOUR party can't talk up the union then lobby and negotiate for Scotland over the rest of the country. Sniff, sniff. Bye-election coming?!

- Peter G, Newcastle, UK

As a previous labour voter and halifax saver, I am outraged by brown's decision to let the english suffer while the scottish benefit. I am withdrawing my savings from halifax asap and will never vote labour again.

- St, londoner

I must admit that I am now at the stage that if McBrown says "good morning" I now head for my bed.
Yes! Protect jobs. But all jobs not just the scottish ones.

- Dene Wood, Grays, Essex, That little country by the sea that used to have

Hmm, retaining jobs in Edinburgh means other places, like HBOS' operations' centre in Halifax, losing a disproportionately high number of jobs. The MP for Halifax is Linda Riordan (Labour), who has a majority of just over 3,000. I don't think I'll be betting any money on her holding the seat against the Conservatives at the next general election . . .

- Huw Jampton, Kabul, Afghanistan

This is the trade off I presume for Government diktat over ruling the Monopolies & Mergers opposition, would like to see how Brown is going to explain this one to the EU.

The sooner Scotland rules itself, and England has its own Parliament free from all this jiggery pokery, the better.

- Guthrum, Bristol,

TUT TUT TUT, Gordon looking after his "own lot" again.

Why do the English have to keep subsidising the Scots?

- P I Staker, london

Regardless, it's high time we dissolved the union with Scotland. The union means little today anyway, given the EU superstate and the Scottish Parliament.

Brown and Darling both need to maintain their own seats, else come the next election it won't just be their jobs as PM and Chancellor gone, but also their positions as MPs and all the benefits it brings. This is why both were involved in the takeover talks, and you can bet getting these guarantees from Llyods TSB management is why Brown is keeping the monopolies and mergers commission (or whatever they're called) at bay.

- Scott, London

To Jkerr, in case you hadn't noticed, the Evening Standard is a London paper.

- Albert Swift, Aberdeen, Scotland

"We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs, and do hereby declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations their interests shall be paramount.”

Alistair Darling 1988

- Keith Young, Durham England

This stinks! Indepedence for Scotland before there's nothing left of England

- Haethraed, Bucks, England

Another day, another great deal for the people of Scotland at the expense of their hard pressed English neighbours. What is it about Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling? Oh yeah, that's right - they look after their own at the expense of us!

What a rubbish totem of corruption this supposed 'union of equals' actually is. It ain't equal. it ain't fair and it ain't democratic for the people of England. The sooner we have our English Parliament restored so it can look after the affairs of the English people, the better. And if the beloved 'union of equals' goes belly up because of it, then bring it on - because it isn't worth saving in the first place.

For now, let's just add 'job favouritism at the expense of the English' to the long list of stuff that the Scots get as of right that we in England don't (free cancer drugs, free residential care, no tuition fees, higher public spending per individual, free prescriptions, diminishing council taxes, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc).

- Alfie The Not Ok - More The Second Class Citizen, England - the land that democracy forgot!

Pity then JKerr that the English have been deprived of a parliament of their own to be so happy with...

- Gavin, Berkshire

"Ethnic frenzy" is usually stirred up by none other than than that SNP leader of note, Alex Salmond. You know, the one who wants independence from England and wants the English to pay for it!

The Westminster Scottish Mafia, created under our esteemed "leader", is a well known and mistrusted group of individuals. They have presided over the destruction of the English society, and contrary to popular belief north of the border, despise Middle England.

Browns' roots is the Scottish Nationalist Party, remember.

- Frank, Home Counties, England.

Both Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown signes the Scottish Claim of Right, in which they pledged that the iinterests of Scotland shall be paramount in everything they do. That would be fine if they were in the Scottish parliament, but they are not. The are ruling over England. Is it any wonder then that when the Scottish banking system collapses, they demand that the English banking system props it up at the expense of jobs in England??

- Helen Wright, England

How disgraceful of our Scottish Chancellor and Prime Minister to rush to the aid of Scottish workers at the expense of English workers. This sums up their Britishness.
I don't that pair being overly concerned when Scottish banks gobbled up Halifax and NatWest.

- Gareth Young, Brighton, England

If the McMafia are trading commercial favours for saving jobs in their own constituencies in Scotland I doubt I'll be the only account holder to remove my unwanted 'southern money' from this new concern.

The City has been paying for the largesse of Scotland for over a decade and this is the thanks...

- Ged, Lee, London

Who ever authored this piece is clearly atempting to appeal to Londoners only. The article has no basis in fact or recent political history, Gordon Brown only cares about Middle England and maintaining his MPs post election. Scotland is Lost and ungainable.

The people are happy with their parliament, despite a hostile Scottish media.

Don't let the truth get in the way of creating ethnic frenzy!

- Jkerr, InverShoogly,Scotland

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