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.

Water water everywhere, but not a drop for the customers

The wettest part of England now has a hosepipe ban. United Utilities are running out of water, and will impose £1000 fine on anyone caught using a hosepipe. How can a private company enforce a fine? Why have they got no water? It pours with rain, the lake district is in their area, and we are surrounded by water for gods sake! So it's too expensive to build desalination plants and other ways to collect water. Well TOUGH! You bought the water company, you should provide enough water for all your customers, (you know the people who pay your wages!), and if there's any money left over, then you can pay a dividend. In any other business, if you don't supply what you promised, then you don't get paid. How about a discount for all your customers eh?

Egg on face

my credit card has just increased it's interest rate from 21% to 26%. What a disgrace when the base rate is 0.5%. I have the option to not accept the rate and cut up the card, so I have done this.
GREED, GREED, GREED - I shall pay this card off as soon as I can, and never will I get a chicken card again - Bye Bye Crooks!

Politics & Pornography

Or should that be Pornography & Politics?

Does anyone care a flying foxtrot that Jacqui Smiths husband watched a pornographic movie? No, it's the fact that we paid for it! It couldn't have been a very good movie, as it was on Virgin after all.
In the real world we have to be careful what we claim for. Politicians appear to be able to claim for everything. As if they don't earn enough already. More greed as usual. B'stards!

Credit Crunch

Ok, so I know naff all about accounting and economics but; How can a company that pays its boss a bonus of 12 million quid one year, can go bust the next year? Whatever happened to saving for a rainy day? At best this looks like greed and incompetence, and at worst it smacks of serious fraud. In the late eighties and early nineties, I worked for a small company that saved its profits during the boom, and then managed to survive during the recession. Short-term-ism is the way to go eh? (is that a word? - It is now!) The fat cats are still around!