The three-pronged plan, which may end up seeing the British state invest as much as £50bn in the country's banks, is the latest in a series of increasingly far-reaching measures by governments in the US and Europe to end the year-long global credit crisis. Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, yesterday described the scheme as a “far more comprehensive programme than people had expected” though he acknowledged there had been “a failure of responsibility on the part of the banking system”.
爲結束長達一年之久的全球信貸危機,美國及歐洲各國政府已推出一系列日益深遠的舉措,這個三管齊下的計劃是其中最新之舉。該計劃可能最終確定,英國政府向銀行體系注入多達500億英鎊的資金。英國首相高登•布朗(Gordon Brown)昨日稱,該計劃「比人們預計的要全面得多」,但他承認,「在銀行體系方面,政府存在失職」。