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Tuesday 28 December 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Posted by Jake No comments Labels: , , , , , , , ,
Having just reached our fiftieth “Ripped-Off Britons” cartoon in the Guardian, and with the imminent end of 2010, we would like to wish our readers a better New Year than the last one. Why are we so mean-minded? Why not wish you all prosperity? Prosperity is a dubious thing to be wished in a Britain where prosperity has become a threat wielded by the well connected to fend off justice and regulation.


Britain’s treatment of BAE Systems, our country’s biggest remaining manufacturing company, perhaps provides the clearest example. An arms dealer whose defence against prosecution for corruption is not innocence, but loss of prosperity and jobs. A defence that continues to succeed to such a great extent that while some investigations are completely abandoned, even the recently ended legal case in the British High Court was not about whether and to what extent the perpetrator should be punished, but about whether and to what extent the victims should be punished. The Serious Fraud Office, having capped the fine and issued a blanket get-out-of-jail card to BAE over their mischievous, we dare not use the C word, sale of a military air-traffic control radar to a country with virtually no air-force had also agreed that any further fine should be paid by the people of Tanzania. In the form of a deduction from their £30m in compensation money. The SFO clutches at BAE’s straw promise that it has reformed. After all, it’s always worth clutching at straws if someone else is drowning – isn’t it? And BAE’s stench drifts in over the channel from distant lands. In Britain the company only brings prosperity and jobs.


The Financial Services Industry, on the other hand, craps on its own doorstep. For years we have known that we are ripped off by providers of financial services from every angle. As customers we are ripped off by rapacious charges for our borrowings and pitiful returns on our savings. As pension fund holders we are ripped off by the excessive extraction of profits to pay for ridiculous bonuses, leaving our pension funds with meagre compensation for the excessive charges and pitiful returns we suffered to create those profits. And we are comprehensively ripped-off as taxpayers, as has been seen by the massive fines imposed on the industry by the less compromised US authorities, most recently on Deutsche Bank, for aiding tax evasion, and threatened most recently on Ernst & Young for aiding and abetting the ‘Repo 105’ tactics of big banks to hide their swingeing debts culminating in the Credit Crisis.


Friday 24 December 2010

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Something's rotten in Santa's grotto...

Wednesday 22 December 2010

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Chris and Fee develop a conscience, and help KJ save face

Monday 20 December 2010

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Compulsory insurance works best for everyone, especially the salespeople

Friday 17 December 2010

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KJ, Fee and Chris want to set up an insurance business

Wednesday 15 December 2010

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Chris and Fee lament the health secretary's push to make the NHS save £20bn by 2014

Monday 13 December 2010

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KJ and Fee on individual efforts to combat global warming

Friday 10 December 2010

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Chris and KJ discuss the FSA's investigation into the Royal Bank of Scotland

Wednesday 8 December 2010

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Chris, Fee and KJ debate whether consumers really are duped by retailers' crafty pricing strategies

Monday 6 December 2010

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KJ develops a website for frustrated single tax payers

Friday 3 December 2010

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Why giving your time for free is the perfect CV material

Wednesday 1 December 2010

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KJ and Fee talk about how to make WikiLeaks turn their attention to UK banks

Monday 29 November 2010

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Chris, Fee and KJ do 'the math' on possible Ofgem fines for utilities companies

Friday 26 November 2010

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KJ and Fee act out the negotiations on international bank transparency laws

Wednesday 24 November 2010

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KJ, Fee and Chris draw an uncomfortable parallel between the Irish bailout and higher education cuts

Monday 22 November 2010

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KJ and Fee find it's a case of 'no can do' when it comes to tackling rising household bills

Friday 19 November 2010

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Chris, Fee and KJ on a novel way for Mervyn King to get his latest round of quantitative easing through

Wednesday 17 November 2010

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Chris is left gnome alone with a pressie that just doesn't fit

Monday 15 November 2010

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KJ's dad comes under pressure when trying to buy an annuity

Friday 12 November 2010

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Chris's friend is upset by a new top rate of tax

Wednesday 10 November 2010

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KJ marvels at his estate agent's wisdom

Monday 8 November 2010

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KJ boasts to Fee about the rising price of his flat

Friday 5 November 2010

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KJ and Fee on George Osborne's decision to cut welfare and benefits

Wednesday 3 November 2010

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The gang discuss the Institute of Directors' stance on private sector pay packets

Monday 1 November 2010

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Chris, Fee and KJ on the government's deal with the Swiss banks

Friday 29 October 2010

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Chris and KJ get their cities mixed up

Wednesday 27 October 2010

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Chris and Fee mull over the latest banking scandal

Monday 25 October 2010

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KJ and Chris reckon it's not a good time to be a woman or a child

Friday 22 October 2010

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The spending review will hit the poor hardest. Surely someone out there cares …

Wednesday 20 October 2010

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Chris and Fee lament the FSA's weakness

Monday 18 October 2010

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Fee and KJ get to grips with Cameron's joined-up thinking

Friday 15 October 2010

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Fee and KJ solve the pensions crisis

Wednesday 13 October 2010

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Chris, Fee and KJ give their take on the benefit cuts

Monday 11 October 2010

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Fee and Chris get ready for higher tuition fees

Friday 8 October 2010

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Chris tries to invoke some Dunkirk spirit among senior civil servants to avert pension cuts

Wednesday 6 October 2010

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Fee educates Chris on the perils of bulk-buying

Monday 4 October 2010

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Fee, Chris and KJ discuss George Osborne's cuts to policing

Friday 1 October 2010

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Chris suspects foul play after an email from Fee

Wednesday 29 September 2010

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KJ and Fee on Labour's socialist principles

Monday 27 September 2010

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Chris sees that when it comes to pay, a banker will always come out on top

Friday 24 September 2010

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Chris gets a glimpse into the murky world of bankers' pay

Wednesday 22 September 2010

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KJ explains why immigrants are a vital part of British society

Monday 20 September 2010

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KJ and Fee on why the British public really should know better

Friday 17 September 2010

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Fee, Chris and KJ hark back to happier times

Friday 10 September 2010

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KJ eulogises the unholy alliance around HMRC's legitimate tax 'loopholes'




Wednesday 8 September 2010

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The price of a house goes much further in Westminster

Monday 6 September 2010

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KJ sets out the salesman's glossary

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