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Bank bonuses row: John Prescott interview; ENGLAND: London: EXT John Prescott MP (Former Deputy Prime Minister) posing for photocall next to unidentified man with petition calling for RBS to scrap its bonus plans John Prescott MP (Former Deputy Prime Minister) interview SOT - Petition is to express the anger of the public / The Royal Bank of Scotland is 20 billion in the red, we give it 20 billion and the Royal Bank of Scotland says 'Oh we're going to use a billion of that to pay bonuses / people don't accept that / It's a bust bank paying out bonuses for failure so I decided to whip up public opinion about it / There you are there's the taxi man saying people have had enough - I'm only expressing what the taxi man says / [speaking to unseen taxi driver] You're right, ok there, vote Labour next time! / So basically the petition was a chance, I used my Blackberry and there's so many people signing it now, I've tried for the sixth time and I can't get on it / The bank, I hope, will recognise this afternoon, this culture's over / Don't pay the bonus and that's what I'm trying to do / They wouldn't have had a contract if the taxpayer hadn't put the money in! In fact they'd have been out of a job / The taxpayer saved them / Of course I'm concerned about the poor old person on the counter, it's nothing like the 14 million they get at the top is it? / It's all part of a culture, you get paid whether you fail or not and when you're a bank and a businessman going at the moment and you go and say to the bank 'I've got a real bit of problems on the credit, can you extend the credit?' No they can't extend the credit / If they go bust do they do anything about helping the company? Perhaps paying them a bonus? No, sorry you've had it / Can't have one law for us and one law for them