Bella Shanny stealing kangaroo teeth

I'm being "Nagged" by a person (who shall remain nameless.... as "Bella Shanny") for not publishing this on my blog.......

So.....

Here it is.....

(Anything for a quiet life !!)

FSA refuses to name and shame Rogue Banks

The Financial Services Authority, already largely discredited as a "City Watchdog", was (supposedly) set up to root-out bad practice and protect the public from corruption in the Financial Services Industry by firm regulation.

However, this priveleged institution, made up largely of Bankers and Financial Services Professionals seem reluctant to "name and shame" the FIVE High Street Banks it has judged to have failed to meet MINIMUM standards of good practice in dealing promptly and fairly with customer complaints.
Presumably the FSA takes the view that if WE knew which banks were first "ripping us off," and then "fobbing us off", we might take our business elsewhere !

Duh-uhhh !!!! THAT's THE WHOLE POINT ISN'T IT ???

This is what the FSA found in MOST BANKS when it lifted the gold-brick:

• A lack of senior management engagement and accountability for the delivery of fair complaint handling;
• Poorly designed staff incentive schemes that made branch staff reluctant to pay redress to customers, even in situations where the bank was at fault;
• Poor quality complaint handling by staff in branches and general call-centres leading to inadequate investigations, poor decision making as to the outcome of the complaint and unsatisfactory correspondence with customers;
• Complaint handling procedures that led to staff issuing multiple, repetitive responses to customers, forcing them to restate their complaint a number of times in the face of ongoing negative responses from the bank;
• The failure of banks to learn from previous complaints and to make changes to prevent similar complaints arising in the future.

So what about YOUR BANK ?..... Oh come on, get real!.. this information is (it seems) strictly "Need-To-Know.... Customers Excluded"

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Remember the places you used to smoke ?

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If you've been following my blog, you'll know that I've become a great fan of Electronic Cigarettes.

Smokers, and Ex-Smokers, who have tried to "kick-the-habit" using the nicotine-replacement gum, patches or inhalators will know how disappointingly ineffective these can be in replacing the total sensation that cigarettes provide.

So the "hard-core" of smokers are banished to stand in doorways in all weathers.

...and then I saw this item on BBC News about a Pub in Sutton Coldfield that was allowing customers to use "Electronic Cigarettes" indoors.

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES ??? ...... I "Googled" the term and read the comments and reviews I found there.

NO HARMFUL TARS ! NO CANCER RISK ! NO FIRE RISK ! NO SECONDARY SMOKE ! TOBACCO TASTE ! NICOTINE HIT ! VIRTUALLY THE FULL SMOKING SENSATION ! NO LEGAL RESTRICTION ON USE IN PUBLIC PLACES ! HUGE COST SAVINGS COMPARED WITH CONVENTIONAL CIGARETTES !

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ?

Here's Some of What I Found

And a report in New Scientist Journal

I bought a starter kit... more in hope than expectation (it has to be said) and, to my surprise and delight, it did "what it said on the box".

So now I'm a convert..... I use my Electronic Cigarettes whenever and wherever I want to AND I haven't needed to stand in a doorway for six months !

..... But this Young Lady puts it better than I possibly could .......

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And here's an astute comment on Jacqui Smiths sleeping arrangements from

"...a "close friend" of Smith's would know that she spends most evenings in her sister's spare bedroom in London. That means her husband is free to sleep wherever he chooses in the family's second home in Redditch.

Once you start telling lies, you need a good memory."

.....er.....NO COMMENT !

Remember... Jacqui Smith is the head of a Home Office administration which has been responsible for closing down our sacred pubs and filling the streets with drunks, not to mention enforcement of the laws which investigate and prosecute citizens for false claims on Benefit claims (M.P.s are, it seems, not lazy, work-shy, freeloading chavs like us, but more by way of being "Ladies" & "Gentlemen", forced to scrape by on six-figure incomes. In view of this distinction,the odd false claim THEY make, here and there, shouldn't be held against them.)

You might think that the burden of responsibility for imposing the Rule of Law on the rest of us is made a lot lighter by the facility to charge the cost of your wine-cellar directly to the taxpayer 's account ! I can't comment, but then again I'm only obliged to pay my portion of these bills (as a taxpayer), I'm not entitled to question the validity of them. Maybe you should ask her husband... WE pay HER £40,000 p.a. to employ HIM as her "assistant" !

(OBVIOUSLY NO QUESTION OF NEPOTISM THERE!!)

MESSAGE TO JACQUI SMITH

Does you really believe that kicking your assistant out of the Marital Bed is the way to address this problem ? If HE is responsible then SACK HIM !! But ...rememember, when you charge the rest of us for your next BATH PLUG, that, as your EMPLOYEE he cannot help but to have been influenced by the example you set.

AND IN ANY EVENT

Perhaps he would be more concientious in assisting you to check your expense claims if he were made to spend more time in bed with you and less time on the sofa watching porn !

ANNANOTHERTHING

Can we be absolutely sure that it isn't Mrs Smith HERSELF who has a taste for "ALTERNATIVE VIEWING"..... Come on Jacqui.... you can tell us..... we've all done it.... (except me, of course....well obviously!)

DUNFERMLINE BUILDING SOCIETY

Don't Panic - It's only YOUR money !!

There's a bloke I know. His car is bigger and better than mine, his suits are handmade and expensive, he flies first-class to exotic and exclusive locations where he stays in the best (Five Star) hotels, his house has an expensive security system (a house like that needs it), his children are groomed in public schools and his Pension is enormous.

How did he accumulate this wealth ?
By gambling with YOUR money !
AND YOU LOST !!!

He is (of course) a BANKER. It's a SIMPLE SCAM. Bankers take enormous risks by gambling with the bank's (depositor's) funds. If they win, lose or break even then they award themselves HUGE BONUSES.

If they CONSISTENTLY LOSE MONEY then the poor dears are given EVEN MORE CASH and and walk away to think up ANOTHER SCAM (or retained as "consultants" for a modest wedge of notes).

WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS ??
ARE WE JUST PLAIN STUPID ??

And now another one "bites-the-dust". This time it's not a Bank, it's the Dunfermline Building Society. (Scotland must be SO proud).

So what's the difference ? Well it's basically this.... A Bank is a commercial organisation which is there to make money for it's shareholders or owners by dealing in financial products.... A Building Society, on the other hand, is a "Mutual" organisation, owned by its depositors, established specifically to prudently lend the depositors money to homebuyers on a "not-for-profit" basis. Low-Risk, Reasonable returns.

That was before the boys in the sharp suits moved in, bought more than £240,000,000 of "packaged loans" on the US market and headed for the "profitable" commercial market.

But don't worry, it's ONLY cost us (the taxpayers) a total of £1,600,000,000 (about £25 for EVERY MAN, WOMAN & CHILD in the UK) to pass the parcel to the Nationwide Building Society.

FEELING CONFIDENT THAT EVERYTHING IS NOW UNDER CONTROL ??

READ ON

This is what Building Society Members Org has to say about NATIONWIDE

"Brian Davis the ex-chief executive took £1,170,000 when he departed. In 2003 the finance director made off with an extra £889,000 bringing his total for the year to £1,435,000 plus a nice fat pension. "It Pays to Decide to Leave Nationwide" - and they say it is a mutual not a bank. How does that compare with Nationwide savings rates?"

FAMILIAR ?

Remember the rules ?

THEY make the money

YOU pick up the bills !

The Govermnent has decided that the £1,600,000,000 does not count as "Taxpayers Money" because all British Banks will be contributing.

????????

Presumably using the Taxpayers money that THEY received !!!!

AFTER DEDUCTIONS FOR BONUSES & PENSIONS... OF COURSE !!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!

This Has to Stop - NOW !!

Go Here to find out more

If you're on facebook click on the image above to sign up to the cause.

WELSH PUB OPTS FOR MINI ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES

How does a pub regain the business lost as a result of the smoking ban ???

Ask Lord Kevin Dickinson. the landlord of the TILERS ARMS in Blaina, Gwent

Kevin, (he doesn't stand on ceremony), has enlisted the help of ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES to keep his customers indoors, at the bar, where they belong, LEGALLY satisfying their nicotine craving without disrupting the sale of good beer, which, after all, is the purpose of Pubs in the first place.

Kevin tells me that he has sold more than 100 "starter-kits" to his grateful customers and that he is, once again, packing in the traditional "pint & a fag" brigade without the smell, litter and fire risk associated with tobacco.

This product is not suitable for anybody under the age of 18, and not for use by non-smokers

COULD THIS BE THE FUTURE ??

Here are a few links that will fill in some of the gaps in your understanding of this phenomenon.

SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE
An Introduction To Electronic Cigarettes

THE VAPER's GUIDE
A Directory of British Pubs where users
of Electronic Cigarettes are Welcomed
(Please leave a note in the comment box if there
are others you know of that are not included here)

THE MINI-CIG STARTER KIT
Price v Performance, Plusses and Minuses

PETITION TO No.10 DOWNING STREET

Still Not Convinced ?
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"DANCING IN THE STREET"

ATHENS GREEK TAVERNA & RESTAURANT
31 Paradise Circus, Birmingham, B1 2BJ 0121 643 5523

Shanny shares a Birthday Bash with Des.... Raj, Fatemah and a debut by (the Very Pretty) Priti, [in the grey dress], kept myself, Mus, Paul (the other one) and Raj's friends, Shailesh & Manju, enthralled.. A "Hen-Night" and another Birthday in the restaurant keep the mood bubbling.

The food was great....Dolmades, Taromasalata, Greek Salad, Sea Bass, Kleftico, "Da Spicy Meataballs" Etc. AND a big gooey Chocolate Birthday Cake.

The belly dancer on the table put everyone "in the mood" and the dancing spilled out onto the street.... traditional Greek "plate-breaking" added the authentic touch.

"DANCING IN THE STREET"
(OK, so I'm no Steven Speiberg... but it's not bad for a Nokia N95)

The "Black-Thing" I'm waving around is my E-Cigarette... which didn't even raise an eyebrow when I used it in the restaurant (during the post-feeding phase)... the manager tells me he likes the idea, especially since it has a blue-glowing tip to avoid confusion, so I'll add The Athens to the VAPER's GUIDE.

The Music is NOT dubbed.... if you move out into the street to dance, they turn on a pair of heavy-duty speakers that fill the air with music.

Great place for Group Get-Togethers... The meal will probably come to less than £20.00 per head (ours averaged out at about £16.00) not including drinks.... A (very) large glass of house wine is £4.00, Bottled Beers £2.50, Soft Drinks £1.00..... BUT........Iced Tap Water with a Slice of Lemon by the Jug (when you're dancing) is FREE.

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