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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Nationwide's takeover of Virgin Money could be a disaster for the building society

In September 2008 Lloyds Bank bought HBOS, the mess that was left from what was once Halifax Building Society.

I asked a City analyst what he thought. He replied: You know what you get when you merge ice-cream with horse-manure? Horse-manure.

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