RSPB organise Britain’s first ‘Ex-Banker Watch’
Thousands of unemployed bankers were identified by amateur enthusiasts across the country in Britain’s first organised survey of sacked investors and redundant stockbrokers. Families were asked to spend just one hour over the weekend looking out for the distinctive signs of those formerly employed in the financial sector, so that a nationwide picture could be built up of this now endangered species.
Posted: Jan 26th, 2009
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A Barclays Bank customer was refused the loan of a pen earlier today, when he needed to fill out a paying-in slip. Dominic Jenkins, 27 found himself without a pen in the Maidenhead branch, but was informed of a change of policy by the bank, whose pens are now firmly glued inside the little pen holders. ‘During the current economic climate, we cannot be expected to sanction the loan of biros without guarantees of adequate security’ said a Barclays spokesman.
Alistair Darling announced plans today to kick start the economy by providing small to medium sized businesses with money plants. Darling claims that the plants will provide an injection of £50 and £20 notes into the economy which will boost spending an increase consumer confidence.
The government has announced an extensive package of measures to help Mr Bob Warner of Shrewsbury after he admitted losing £300 in an online poker game this weekend. Alistair Darling said that the measures were in place to restore confidence in the local black economy. With a £10 scratchcard win on Monday morning there is already talk of ‘green shoots of recovery.’
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