04-12-2009, 06:27 PM
Sadly I saw this decision by the Court coming a couple of years ago.
The sheer amount of money UK banks had ripped off their customers through excessive charges over a ten year period totaled more than £20 billion. No Court was ever going to rule that this had to be refunded. That was, imo, the whole thrust of the "joint" OFT and bank's so called "test case" -- to bring over 100,000 mall claims court cases by customers against their banks to an abrupt and permanent end.
Of course, it couldn't possibly be revealed that this was a stitch-up from day one, and so there had to be an artful charade that justice was finally coming to the rescue of the ordinary people and that the naughty, greedy banksters would come to a well deserved end and have to cough up their ill-gotten gains.
But real life isn't a nice fairy tale. Real life is a continuous slide-show of how power and influence really works.
The UK bank charges stitch-up should now become a deep political case study by anyone wishing to know how reality work behind the scenes. It has been a brilliant operation aimed at staunching an ever increasing flow of blood from the body of the parasite and then holding this up as blind justice in operation.
There is no more chance of banks being nationalized than there is of me streaking naked on the Moon while playing a guitar, blowing a harmonica, thumping a bass drum hanging on my back and clashing symbols (very carefully) strapped to the inside of my knees.
The sheer amount of money UK banks had ripped off their customers through excessive charges over a ten year period totaled more than £20 billion. No Court was ever going to rule that this had to be refunded. That was, imo, the whole thrust of the "joint" OFT and bank's so called "test case" -- to bring over 100,000 mall claims court cases by customers against their banks to an abrupt and permanent end.
Of course, it couldn't possibly be revealed that this was a stitch-up from day one, and so there had to be an artful charade that justice was finally coming to the rescue of the ordinary people and that the naughty, greedy banksters would come to a well deserved end and have to cough up their ill-gotten gains.
But real life isn't a nice fairy tale. Real life is a continuous slide-show of how power and influence really works.
The UK bank charges stitch-up should now become a deep political case study by anyone wishing to know how reality work behind the scenes. It has been a brilliant operation aimed at staunching an ever increasing flow of blood from the body of the parasite and then holding this up as blind justice in operation.
There is no more chance of banks being nationalized than there is of me streaking naked on the Moon while playing a guitar, blowing a harmonica, thumping a bass drum hanging on my back and clashing symbols (very carefully) strapped to the inside of my knees.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14