Nick Clegg calls for 10% of bank tax20: 36 12/03/2010, Patrick Wintour, Allegra Stratton, banking, business, economic policy, the 2010 general electio

Nick Clegg calls for 10% of bank tax20: 36 12/03/2010, Patrick Wintour, Allegra Stratton, banking, business, economic policy, the 2010 general elections, the Liberal Democrats, News, Nick Clegg, politics, recession , news, The Guardian, UK, Guardian Unlimited

Lib Dem leader condemns bankers as "Scargills in pinstripes" and says voters, not him, decide who is next PM

Nick Clegg's call for a 10% tax on bank profits to finance a £ 2 billion of the job creation program to rescue the victims of the recession.

In an interview with The Guardian, Liberal Democrat leader convicted bankers behave Scargill como''Arthur pinstripes,''and promised that his party would be "a radical rather than moderate force" in the event of a hung parliament so time as the majority party has undertaken to bring the deficit under control.

On the eve of his party's spring conference pre-election, insisted that his party fully consulted before joining a coalition or support to a speech by the Queen, by a minority government.

Clegg stressed that not for himself but for the electorate to decide if David Cameron or Gordon Brown becomes prime minister. However, Brown also attacked in derogatory terms: "It is very difficult to invest much hope or faith in a man who could not even keep their own relationships with colleagues."

He said Brown was not a credible figure to rebuild the economy. "This is the man who caused the damage should not be the person to do the repair work.

The conversion at the end of Brown to the electoral reform was "just a moment, alleluia." He added: "There is no point to hold onto power when it is obvious that the British people do not want you ... I prefer someone else.

"That's where subtlety constitutional bumps against the political reality. Not for me to decide. We give the electorate of cards, dealing them."

Clegg said he remained, in general, "an extremely critical" by Margaret Thatcher, but admitted that Britain needs to rediscover the enthusiasm they showed when dealing with unions.

The banks, he said, have now become Britain contemporary interest. He said: "Bankers are Scargill in stripes. Scargill declared aim was to challenge that runs the country. The bankers have behaved arrogantly the same ... that only benefit themselves ...

"Banks have been basically a support without the hindrance of Labor and Conservative governments to do exactly what they want, and take huge risks with our lives, livelihoods and savings.

"They've been holding a gun to the economy. A progressive liberal like me, it will be very careful with the whistle of a personal interest.

The only tax increase proposed by his party, now the back of a 10% tax on bank profits, the collapse of investment banks and retail arms, and finally the requirement that banks owned taxpayers - RBS and Lloyds - were required to act in the public interest on issues such as acquisitions of companies in the United Kingdom.

It also proposes stricter requirements on banks to lend. "What I hear from conservatives is ..." we have to wait for the rest of the world. I really do not think the conservatives get much are we skating on thin ice as an economy.

"If we do not take interest in this ourselves now, unilaterally, immediately, we are asking for trouble. The liabilities of British banks are now four and a half times the size of the UK economy. We are like a big version of Iceland . We are not protected in any way.

In his interview Clegg also:

rejects Tory plans to open new schools and rejects non-profit company opening new schools. "I keep reading us and the Conservatives have identical policies in schools, but it's a complete waste."

insists he will not be ringfence NHS cuts. He said: "We have to make significant savings to safeguard GP surgery or