banks back in court

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

well here we go again on the merrygoround and up the garden path to the court yet again,the banks hoping that the road paved with gold will come out intact,i hope it comes out for the public paved with diamonds,this hopefully is the final hearing of what has become a runaway train full of robbers versus the public with a pea shooter.
however the public should win this case,the banks have no way to justify the charges they impart on your and my account,if they cant justify it,they cant charge it.wednesday 25th november 2009 is the date i have marked off to listen to the radio and get the result,i urge the banks to give every last penny back to the public or face being isolated completely in a world of there own which will become increasingly fragile if they have zero public support,without support you fall over,its not a hard lesson to learn now is it,the banks are walking a very thin rope on a very high cliff

GIVE US BACK OUR HARD EARNED CASH THAT YOU HAVE STOLEN MR BANKER,THE TIME IS UP FOR THIS LITTLE MONEY EARNER OF YOURS TO BE AT AN END,PAY UP OR SHUT UP.:coin:
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[Chico]

We will never win.

[Chopfloat]

Chris, could you please send me your book of mixed metaphors when you're done with it!:joker:

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

whats a mixed metaphor when its at home ???? lol

[HarryBelafonte]

not sure

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

bbc radio5 live were talking about bank charges and had a guest chap on from the banking industry,so i took the oportunity to phone in and got a brief go at him about the bank charges affair,his remit prior to his appearance on the show must have been like baldrick recieving instructions from captain blackadder,ignore everything and stick to the pre arranged answers we gave you.the banks have no answers for there critics,and i mean NO answers,its an obvious game of hide and seek from the likes of the halifax,barclays and co......

this country is on the brink of total and final distrust of all things political and financial........ITS TIME TO FIX IT MR BROWN,MR CAMERON,or who ever else gets the power,"you cannot bite the hand that feeds" is this a lesson you bankers and politicians are failing to understand,or do you not mind an occasional bite,as long as you get away with the loot.

apparently every action has a reaction,the banks have caused a wave of change that is on its way to flood there ranks and sort out the wheat from the chaff,is this the beginning of a new order,a financial revolution ? who knows ?

give the billions back to the people that it has been wrongly taken from.

(in other words nicked.)

[HarryBelafonte]

are you private baldrick...no
do you know captain blackadder ...no

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

i refer to the statement that i was told to say in the event any questions arose i could not answer.

[Belisar]

Looks like the banks won this round but that is not the end of the matter... it's only change of ends.

Heard an analyst this morning say that whoever won, the case would rumble on possibly until the year 2015 !!!

[HarryBelafonte]

surely the government must step in and sort this out.
they interfere with everything trivial ,but when it comes to a major decision they back down...
who will come and save the country?

[Mr Wilko]

I heard you on Alan Robson Chris the other week about these charges!!!!! :covereyes::covereyes:

[Wiggy63]

IMO, it all started back in the early 80's. When I first started work, the forman came round at 3.30 on a friday afternoon with a box full of those loverly brown wage packets. The banks saw non of it, it was divided up between what you needed to pay out to live, and what you could spend, if you were lucky enough to have anything left you could put it in the building society (before they were banks) and the banks never ever got their greedy mitts on it. By 1985, just about every wage was proccessed through the banking system, and thats when the rip off started, not that it did not originate there beforehand, but once the wages went from the banks, to the banks, the opportunity for them to squeese a bit/ lot more out of us presented itself. In this modern age, where every wage and bill is payed though the banking system, it is so hard to change banks without massive distruption to your life, they know this and bleed us to death for it. In any given month, most people just cannot afford to change banks.

Also, the WORST think that ever happened to this country was the selling off of the public utilities, talk about licence to print money.

[Belisar]

Just to stir the pot a little ... :covereyes:

If the banks had lost and had paid out the £2.6bn that has been quoted in some articles what would be the knock on effect?

Banks are going to try to recover this somewhere. They will not simply pay out and accept a hit on their profits (especially at the moment).

So I wonder if we could have seen the end of free banking for personal customers. At the moment I do not go overdrawn and I get paid credit interest. I get the service the bank provides for free (i.e. looking after my account, use of cheques and debit card). Would they not start charging fees for this to make up the loss of overdraft charges?

Oh and Wiggy - watch your utility bills, especially electricity as over the next few years they could be going up an awful lot (to pay for adapting power stations to reduce greenhouse emissions and more green power generation methods including nuclear).

[Chopfloat]

In reponse to Wiggy, regarding the fact that all wages now go into the banking system. There's a new directive coming out from the Dole. If you don't have a bank account, you'll no longer receive unemployment benefit. By not having a bank account, it will be deemed that you're not seeking work, as without a bank account you couldn't be paid!
It just goes on and on.

[Big Geordie]

More rules and regs to turn us into unfeeling automata where will it stop:redcard:

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

in table tennis terms we are 2.0 down and 5.0 down in the third,i remember being 7.1 down in first end in tourny v edward smith,i won the game 3.0 but thats a far cry form the other example i gave,we need a couple of nets to get a start,then a couple of great fhand loops and maybe we can get it back,but i dont hold out much hope .