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Re: Debanking

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Well she did say she assumed this info was already in the public domain, or something along those lines. It does make me wonder if she is indeed taking the fall becuase she was aware of communications going on etc, but not the details. If she was always the one, and the only one, why would she have been assuming stuff about what was in the public domain already?

Or maybe it's all just bollox.
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Mussels wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 12:01 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:44 am According to the BBC (yeah OK, slightly less than stellar provenance in this context :D ) she started at Natwest 30 years ago as a trainee. She was the first person to receive a bonus post the 2008 bail out (when the government acquired some of NatWest) off the back of strong profits.

So yeah, she's made a pretty big mistake and is now paying for it, but it doesn't appear she was parachuted into her job off the back of being a woman. How many of you started at the bottom in a big firm, then rose to the top over three decades and delivered big profits?

And then fucked it all up :D
I've worked for most of the big banks and Gnatwest in particular about three times, they aren't like the other banks and have some unusual staffing ideas. After they were a significant part of the financial crash and the government took over their plans seemed driven by politics such as pushing as many jobs as possible into Scotland which was no cheaper than London.

RBS's lovely new build campus courtesy of Fred was very plush. Free bar in the evening too, even for us lowly van drivers. They wouldn't give you unopened bottles, boo his.

Amusingly, to me anyway, it was built on the site of an old lunatic asylum.
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I think she's taken the fall in the misguided belief this will allow Nige to leave it there. But he is nothing, if not tenacious, and hes after Flavel and Harris as well. Plus more bad publicity for the BBC. All in all a good days work for Farage...
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 12:58 pm I think she's taken the fall in the misguided belief this will allow Nige to leave it there. But he is nothing, if not tenacious, and hes after Flavel and Harris as well. Plus more bad publicity for the BBC. All in all a good days work for Farage...
I think he's right to do that, after the BBC's high horse about Huw Edwards they deserve all they will get.
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The BBC do seem to bounce back and forwards between "intrusion into private affairs with dubious evidence" and "the press shouldn't report on unproven stories, people have the right to a private life".

Happy mediums are so 20th century.
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The banking crisis continues as another US bank, Pacific West, goes under. It’s all going according to plan. 🥳
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:14 pm The BBC do seem to bounce back and forwards between "intrusion into private affairs with dubious evidence" and "the press shouldn't report on unproven stories, people have the right to a private life".

I think it's because nobody is actually in charge. There seems to be very little leadership or control from the top.
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Potter wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:25 pm...the press are not your friends, they're only there to grab that one soundbite that gets them a headline and they don't care if they burn you in the process.
Between the font, the font size and my old eyes that reads "BUM you in the process". It works both ways I suppose. :D
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Yep, the job of the Press is to lie and destroy lives.
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Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
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Perhaps the government will buy them . . .
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Ant wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
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JamJar wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am
Ant wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
So they still are if I don't look?
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Schrondinger's shares :thumbup:
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:14 pm The BBC do seem to bounce back and forwards between "intrusion into private affairs with dubious evidence" and "the press shouldn't report on unproven stories, people have the right to a private life".

Happy mediums are so 20th century.
They try to keep everyone happy - and in doing so keep nobody happy.
Editorial is "too left wing", but politics programmes give disproportionate airtime to loonies from across the spectrum in the spirit of fairness and free speech, leading to further criticism from all sides of promoting fringe issues.
And yet at the other end of the scale some of the "News" programmes flip-flop between sixth form grilling of party leaders sandwiched followed by a discussion about the king's new hat by the royal hat correspondent.
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Peter Flavel, Coutts boss just given his marching orders......
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JamJar wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am
Ant wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
Ok I had a look....

...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million :lol:
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Ant wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm
JamJar wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am
Ant wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
Ok I had a look....

...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million :lol:
Market capitalisation of c. £30b, mind. S'all relative, innit.
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Presumably this drop is mostly down to the departure of 'a' CEO and the associated curfuffle/uncertainty, rather than any particular market outrage at the reason for said exit?
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Potter wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:11 pm
gremlin wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:06 pm
Ant wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm

Ok I had a look....

...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million :lol:
Market capitalisation of c. £30b, mind. S'all relative, innit.
It is, but if I whacked your big toe with a lump hammer you wouldn't shrug it off as only a small percentage of your overall body ;)
Only way to tell is to do it.

He'll cry like a baby 👶