“I think people are very tired and angry of what happened with our banks in Scotland and I think this creates an opportunity in the future to build a new bank which is based on mutual principles. It's not going to be speculating in all kinds of strange derivatives and it's not going to be a bank that's going to be focused overseas, it will be a bank that's focused in Scotland - and really it's a peoples' bank.”

As quoted on the BBC Web Site http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-11106098 (27th August 2010)

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