All true. However, UK bank share ownership doesn't necessarily correlate with UK citizenship. And, maybe more importantly, stock ownership is skewed heavily to

All true. However, UK bank share ownership doesn't necessarily correlate with UK citizenship. And, maybe more importantly, stock ownership is skewed heavily to a relative few, e.g. (US data) [0]. [0] http://www.nber.org/papers/w24085 http://www.nber.org/papers/w24085