good riddance to TPG. I have every confidence in the B&B management and I continue to put my money (both savings receiving good interest and buying shares) where my mouth is. O ye of little faith will see I am well rewarded. Lets all pull together and help genuine buyers get a home.

tony, loughton, essex

As a B+B shareholder I would rather my holdings value fall to zero than there be a government rescue package. Why? It will guarantee the red bracered losers on the board their bonus/golden handshake/pension. Let the free market function. Shareholders who disagree should have bought National Savings.

Eric Skelton, Cardiff, Wales

What a continued mess!.
Mr Darling had better step in NOW, before B&B have completely flushed the company down the tubes.

David Diggins, Derby., England.

I have an e-mail from B & B (not bed and breakfast) assuring me that the banks' future is safe as is my Bond that I hold but that document may not be enough to save my little pot of gold!

Derek Clifton, Andover, Hampshire, England

B+B ? BB+ surely ? Maybe not as good as that...?

charles murchison, Hampton Hill, Middlesex,

The Board refused to open B&B's books to Cowdery - one City type on Radio5 this sunny morn said that 'the City Boys' were wondering what they possibly 'had to hide' - Kent (no typo) & Co. now have their funding...from the same investors...without any due diligence taking place !! Clever stuff !

Alistair Fraser, London, England

Having worked in the arreas collection department of B&B, i can confirm that the whole company from top to bottom is infested with incompetent senior management, who are inacapable of preforming even the most basic functions of management. A new management team is required urgently.

Abid Mahmood, Birmingham, UK

I've known for 5 years that Buy to Let was a disaster waiting to happen. £600 rent on a flat with a mortgage of £800 makes no sense - especially at historically low interest rates.

But they believed what they wanted to believe - that property will always go up and up and up and up. Fools.

Mary Jones, Brightlingsea,

NOW may we have a Vote of Censure on the Executive and Board?

Noel Falconer MEcon, COUIZA, France

Just £179 million deal, to save a bank, how bad must their finances be?
If TPG Capital were not prepared to invest such a small sum, then questions have to be asked.
I would not touch their shares with a barge pole!
Not long to go, I think

Andrew Huddleston, Melton Mowbray, England

And they sit in their yachts in the Med while savers run the risk of inflation robbing them or worse still the total collapse of our economy and total loss of savings.
And our gutless corporate banking controlled does??????

NOTHING!!!

R McAuley, Antrim, United Kingdom

Now will the Police arrest the Kent Gang of Montebancs. They have wrecked the lives of hundreds of thousand of shareholders who believed their lies. We should be able to seize their assets and scrapped all the lucrative payoff packages they gave themselves. Seize the pension of the heart man also

john fulham, liverpool, England

A ratings 'downgrade'? B&B should be sealed in concrete and dropped into the Mariana Trench. At least the water pressure down there would save us more vapourings from a crew that knows its vessel is well and truly sunk. Abandon ship all ye who enter here.

Colin Johns, London, UK

Nice to know UBS and Citi will support B+B. The biggest loser in Europe and one of thebiggest in America. Gives one real confidence doesn't it?

eric campbell, harrogate, uk