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Tell you what my pet hate in life is... Banks. I really do. I loathe banks as they stand now. When I was a young man you'd never borrow money. You might borrow a few quid from a few friends go and have a drink or go to the cinema or something like that. But you'd never dream of going into a bank and saying could I borrow some money. They'd say what collateral do you have? You'd say I don't have any. And they'd say piss off. Now, in the 80's that all changed didn't it? A few years ago. Come on in, do you want to borrow money? You'd just be walking by the bloody place. "Do you want to borrow some money?" What? "Do you want to borrow some money?" No thank you. "No thank you! Why not? What's a matter with you? Are you a lunatic?" Well I'm unemployed. "That doesn't make any difference. Have some money, come on here have some, what do you want, buy something, have a house, buy a house." Well I hadn't thought about it. "Here, have some buy a house, do you want a car? You don't want to walk around like everybody else, go buy a car." And they just poured it on you. Now that's all changed. The images of the banks which was at one time, the caring bank. We are the caring bank. We are the listening bank. We are the friendly bank, we are the open bank. We are the bank that likes to say YES bank. Now it's changed totally. Now it's Are you out of your mind bank. Piss off bank. Get out of here you ass hole bank. We don't give a shit bank. We're told the the economy of the high street depends on us. People, sending our money. Now to help the economy of the country the banks arrange credit for us. By letting us have credit cards. And we, to help the economy, take these credit cards and spend money, that we don't have. And these bastards charge us for that. And we're grateful.
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Dave Allen, 1993
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