Saying it with flowers

[Kafka]

As many members will already know, LB has just released a major press release to coincide with the 6-month anniversary of the introduction of the waiver by the FSA.

As part of this project, EXC has sent another floral arrangement to Clive Briault, Managing Director, Retail Markets. This was a repeat of the event in August. msl:

This time, EXC was there himself, at 7:30 this morning. Staff were strangely reluctant to permit photographs: they moved quickly to obstruct and insisted that the shots on the camera were deleted! They also accused EXC of being from penaltycharges.co.uk (Stephen would be proud:okay

Only two shots could be taken, but they give a good impression of photography on the front line!
More news later...
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[TUTTSI]

Re: Saying it with flowers

This arrangement was far to good for him - perhaps we should of sent plastic flowers.

Anyway I hope that he felt embarrassed!

Were any press there!

DSxx

[Kafka]

Re: Saying it with flowers

No press were there. In the event, EXC decided to deliver very early so he could get to the case in time. They were dropped off just after 7:30, which is why the light is poor.

Copies of the photos have gone to the BBC reporter who is covering the test case, and we are hopeful that they will cover it. He seemed keen.
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[ByTheWay]

Re: Saying it with flowers

msl: Laughing cos I think this is a great idea and I hope he felt shamed by it. Really hope it gets covered in the press!

Not laughing for fellow claimants who are still waiting for the OFT outcome and are still being charged

[Celestine]

Re: Saying it with flowers

Oooooh Mr Briault really doesn't deserve such a whopping bunch of flowers!
That security guard doesn't look very friendly............................:angry:


msl: Well done!

[agnes]

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yes nice flowers, plastic is good enough for him, by the way who is lurking in the background? maybe it's his bodyguard

[Kafka]

Re: Saying it with flowers

We should not be surprised that paranoia stalks the marble halls of the FSA at Canary Wharf.

The organisation is now in freefall. Utterly discredited and unfit for purpose. The Chairman and others have to leave over the NRock shambles that they failed to manage. Staff are leaving and noone wants to replace them. The Chancellor wants to give them even more powers, but the Treasury Committee will not let him because they are so useless. Darling can't admit its been a failed experiment because it was his boss GB - the Cowdenbeath clunker - who set it up in 2000. Even their own Consumer Council - that is supposed to represent us - is rebelling against the waiver. Consumer confidence in the organisation has collapsed.

Now their paymasters - the banks - are desperate for protection in the charges battle and FSA is their only hope to save them. By fawning to the banks they have become isolated and irrelevant, and now the consumer backlash will ensure that they never get an easy ride again, as long as they survive (probably till about Christmas at this rate). Clive's only hope for a happy future is to ride off into the sunset with Comical Angie. :snog: I just hope we get a tip off so we can arrange the press coverage :sadwave: msl:

It must be said too that Canary Wharf is one of the highest-profile terrorist targets in Britain, so if you turn up in the dark and plant packages outside you do expect to get your collar felt. But the funniest thing is that the security guards saw the threat as not coming from Al-Queda at all, but from penaltycharges.co.uk
msl:msl:msl:

I'm leaving EXC to tell Stephen this one :banana::banana:

[EXC]

Re: Saying it with flowers

Well I'm disappointed it didn't make it on to the BBC but the 2 shots I took were just not up to scratch I suppose. Although I'm convinced I'm not entirely to blame as the the lighteningly quick FSA gestapo barely gave me the chance to get my camera out let alone set up the shots.

When I'm done typing up the test case I'll let you know just how narrowly I avoided a regulatory lynching.

[Guest]

Re: Saying it with flowers

Gordon Brown put the framework for handling a financial crisis in place in 1997 when he made the Bank of England independent. The Treasury Select Committee said it is fundamentally flawed and it blamed the Financial Services Authority for "a substantial failure of regulation."

Unbelievably the treasury is already planning a carve up of Northern Rock's responsibilities between it and the discredited FSA. Talk about rewards for failure.