Taking the piss is such fun.

You know you will laugh Derek. Even you must see the funny side. You're not the first to have this treatment, and you won't be the last.

Got yer!

Note the raised middle finger.

H/T to Maggie Jones

A Hero, Nattie

I am proud and humble that I have worked with him in the relentless quest to help those in need from the completely ridiculous charges the banks were charging their customers for even minor infractions on their account. Yes, I know that he has breeched his terms and conditions, but I have read hundreds, no thousands, of posts of people who were trapped in a never ending spiral by the exorbitant charges. I helped in as much as I could but Nattie was able to give us advance warning, wherever possible, of a change in tactics by his bank.

He is the rarest of creatures: a decent, likeable banker. For more than two years Tim Keirman was the mystery guardian angel of the bank charges campaign. While still working for NatWest he helped thousands of customers get their money back by posting anonymous guidance on consumer forum websites, much to the chagrin of his employers. Last week, his identity was finally discovered by the bank. Its revenge was swift, and savage.

Mr Keirman, a 34-year-old cashier and MoneySense adviser for NatWest's Cambridge branch since 1998, yesterday revealed his identity to the IoS. After a disciplinary hearing last Wednesday, he was sacked for gross misconduct.

Mr Keirman dedicated his spare time to helping customers navigate the bureaucracy needed to get their money back by offering targeted advice and leaking internal guideline documents.

Marc Gander of the website Consumer Action Group said: "People see him as a hero. He was tremendously helpful."

Mr Keirman said yesterday: "It was good to get a sense that I was helping someone. I didn't agree with our charging structure and there were a number of times when I heard the charges were ruining lives."

A spokeswoman for NatWest said last night: "We can confirm that a member of NatWest staff has recently been dismissed for gross misconduct for releasing confidential internal information without authorisation to a third party."

The banking crisis is not over. The banks made £3 billion out of their charging regime last year and are most likely to lose the test case that is due for resolution in the next few months. This means that they will have to pay back the overcharging, not just for that year but also forthe preceding 5 years.

We are screwed yet again, as they are bound to winge for more money from the the taxpayer.

Don't you dare say It's my fault

The end

For tonight

I'm going to have several large drinks. Sure to piss of that double-barrelled doc who thinks we are all killing ourselves, and we should be saved. He can piss off as well.

Dolly Draper

He really doesn't get it about Blogs. My understanding of a personal Blog is, if you don't agree with it. don't go there.

I think that him and his Ilk, have just woken up to the threat that the blogosphere has become to them and the Labour party, and they can't handle it. It's beyond their control freakery comprehension and the spin associated with it. They have become conditioned to their own sense of importance.

They don't begin to understand how angered are the majority of the country with this government. All they are concerned with is trying to deflect comment by bringing up minority issues, albeit legitimate, about such issues such as racism. (on this subject I will post at a later date).

What I will take issue with him is the issue of the right to free speech, which judging from his comments on labourlist, are only what he thinks are free. When will he realise that we are a Kingdom of 60,000,000 people with different predujices against each other, but still remain together.

All I can say is: Dolly, Fuck off and get a life. Preferably in another country.

Useless, the lot of them.

For all of my adult life I have voted Tory.

I always considered them, the party that was low tax, small government, and allowed people to get on with their lives with little or no state interference. However since David Cameron was elected as party leader, I feel that we are slipping into a state where all politicians are becoming the same. Spineless pigs in the trough of perpetual political sleeze and non entity policies.

Please, when are we going to get a Politician that can lead from the front and not re-act perpetually to what the Other Party does.

When are we going to have a politician that actually listens to the people and endeavours to do what they want? All I can see is an endless war between two differing ideologies. No thought as to why they are in parliament at all.

When are we going to see a Churchill, a Thatcher, again? Not in my life time I'm afraid to say. All we have is soundbite politics. Can they please fucking shut up.

P.S. Can we have our freedom of speech back? Dolly, I'm talking to you.

Public Opinion.

A funny old thing. There's a poll on the guardian website today on whether Geert Wilders should, or should not have been allowed in to the UK.

Interesting results, coming from Guardian readers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2009/feb/12/netherlands-islam

I am So, So, Sorry

I'm afraid that I watched the BBC 6 O'clock news again.

The main article of news was the arrival and expulsion of, you can guess, Geert Wilders.
I was absolutely appalled by the BBC's left wing bias on this. Phrases such as; Far right wing, stirring up racial hatred, etc.

But what got my goat, was the listing of all those, that this government of wankers, had excluded. Not one mention of the Tossers of hate peddling, that various labour twats had invited in .

Give me strength.

PS must remember to dig out the blood pressure monitor.
No sod it I'm going to have a stiff drink

CCTV

I was just idly browsing, when I stumbled upon this on the Liberty website.

In the past decade the Home Office has spent 78% of its crime prevention budget on CCTV, before assessing its effectiveness in deterring or detecting crime.

78% of their crime prevention budget! No wonder you never see a Police Officer on the street. A quick look at the home office website to find that the cost for all those cameras came to a figure of £170,000,000.

If you look at the average Plods pay, that equates to over 5600 extra police we could have patrolling our streets.

Or , hell, 8500 PCSOs

Liberty

H/T to Guthrum. Needs more airing, so it's on here as well.