Dont bank with Santander!

If you lose your Santander bank card, they hold YOU responsible for the debt!
Take a look at this
Time to close my accounts with them, just in case it happens to me.

Here they go again

Watch Panorama tonight. The Bankers are at it again. Paying huge bonuses at the expense of your customers is bad enough, but this time it's OUR MONEY. We all bailed out these greedy cheating scumbags, and now they pay themselves massive bonuses, and charge extortionate overdraft rates and pay minuscule savings rates. My bank, you know the one that used to be named after a big church and is now named after a town in northern Spain, recently charged me £60 for going £3 overdrawn, for 2 days. By my calculations that's 365,000% interest! That's worse than loan shark rates!
It's time for the government to act! Do it now! Make a fair rate of overdraft interest, and no hidden charges. Tax these undeserved bonuses at 90%. This is Robin Hood in reverse - rob from the poor to give to the rich. IT MUST END.

Credit cards

If you are close to your limit on your credit card, watch out! The greedy banks add the interest charge BEFORE they take the direct debit, resulting in you going over your limit and incurring a fine. If they did it after taking the payment, then this would not occur. If the current balance plus interest charge would make you reach your limit, then the transaction should be rejected. This is just another cynical trick to rip a further £12 off you! I cant tell you which credit card it is, but chickens lay them.

Cleaners worth more than bankers

Cleaners are worth more to society than bankers. Most of us have known this for ages, but a BBC report shows us that hospital cleaners create £10 worth of value for every £1 they earn, whereas bankers lose us £7 for every £1 that they earn. Also on the same subject, an arcade in Southwold has a "Whack a banker" game, and the game is so popular, that the mallets get worn out quickly.
These people must be the most hated in Britain!

Banks again

The bank account of a lads football team in Derbyshire went overdrawn by less than £3, and the bank stung them with £800 in bank charges. This works out at thirty one and a half thousand percent interest. Who are the loan sharks in this case eh? Read it here

Credit Crunch affects us all

Until now, the credit crunch has not affected me. I still had my job, and all my bills were paid. However, I did run on a bank overdraft, and now my bank has withdrawn that facility. To be fair, they have given me a year to do it, but I now have to make serious savings each month.
It seems bizarre that the bankers who caused this mess are still highly paid, and the normal hard working population have to pick up the pieces.
I need to live on baked beans for the next year - could be interesting round my house!

Bonuses

Can you believe these bankers? They get £20 billion from the government (in other words - us) and then want to spend £1 billion of it on bonuses!
A bonus is to reward employees when a company makes a profit. Well that's what it is in my line of business. The bankers are on a different planet eh?
If this stupid government lets them get away with it, then they should be ashamed. So while the rest of us struggle with the credit crunch, the idiots that caused it get huge payouts. Funny old world isn't it?