Bank Manager Lament Official Video with CAG address...

[mlloyd]

Have posted info on this piece and first live performance. Attached is the link to the Official Video recorded and edited in the last 48 hours. I have added the Consumer Action Group link at the end as you guys inspired me to write the piece. Admin Dave though the link would be fine as long as it looks like an independent video....

 

Hope you all like it. Content does contain an expletive and could be considered quite scary so please view without the kids around. I believe the video compliments the words and is a representation of how many of us feel.

 

 

Dont watch this if you may be upset by imagery of suicide

 

 

 

 

Feedback is much appreciated...

[mochamoo]

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[sandbag]

Wow - good stuff - really drives the point home. I bet there are hundreds if not more people driven to feel like this by uncaring and greedy banks.

Good stuff Matt well done.

Best Wishes

Sandbag.

[BankFodder]

Congratulations on a well-pointed hard-hitting image. A sober message for all banks and their staff.

 

I suppose that the banks won't care but maybe it will help to jog some of the staff who feel ambivalent about the business of charges.

 

The bank charges campaign needs more people who know shat is happening behind the scenes and who have a sense of social justice and morality to come and let us know what is going on.

As long as your evidence relates to wrongdoing or iniquity then neither your employment contract nor the law will protect the bank or allow the bank to attack you.

We receive all kinds of information and are very good at using the information and protecting our sources.

 

This video is quite real. Don't watch it to be entertained. Watch it to become aware or to be reminded of the tragedy and grief caused in the lives of thousands people by the vicious greed of your employers.

[Struggling_Simon]

Very Good, Mark.

 

There have been times in my life that I've felt exactly the same way, but i'm a coward, so didn't follow through. I'm mostly sorted out now, but only because I've found my own guardian angel.

 

People, please, please don't give up.

As long as your heart is beating, there's hope. Have faith that you are not alone, and there are moral people out there who are only too willing to help.

[sajabu2003]

This video certainly makes you sit back and think. Great work Mat!

[mlloyd]

Thanks for all your kind comments, I have had some good feedback. DONT Magazine contacted me yesterday in regards to putting it on their web based DONT TV and interviewing me next week about it!!!

 

Very excited.

[mochamoo]

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[JulesTools]

Hi Mat,

A very strong and well presented piece , well done.

 

HOWEVER,

 

I am very sorry to say that I know a lot of people on this site myself being one of them , for who this may be a step too far in the glorification of getting the message across . Although I like the piece I do not feel it is appropriate to be accessible through CAG . I have talked to many people on here in the past who have contemplated suicide whether it be because of financial difficulty or otherwise , I have even been very close myself in the past.

 

I feel I really must object to this being assosiated with CAG. I am sure everyone will disagree with me but , I have to air my own opinion as i STRONGLY OBJECT.

 

I respect the fact that you have pre-warned people of the content but as in life , wherever it says `wet paint ` we still touch it

 

Thanks

Jules

[Guest Mumofthreeboys]

I am sure everyone will disagree with me but , I have to air my own opinion as i STRONGLY OBJECT.

 

I strongly agree with you Jules, however, we are 'associated' so it won't count.

[mochamoo]

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[Guest Mumofthreeboys]

I like it as it shows the world what bank charges and debt in general can make people feel like doing. It gets a message out that some charges really can push people over the edge.

 

I know it is shocking, (shocked me when I saw it and I had heard the poem before I saw the video) but sometimes shock and horror is what gets a message across.

 

 

**Admin added the warning for a reason, if you are upset by this imagery seriously don't watch it.**

 

I read the warning - I am not that stupid, I can make up my own mind and have done so.

 

Swear and you will get shot down in flames, tell a joke that offends the smallest of minorities, it will be deleted - hang yourself in a mock video - that is fine, go for your life (so to speak).

[mochamoo]

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[Guest Mumofthreeboys]

I didnt mean it like that! I put that warning for anyone else who comes on here! It wasn't aimed at you. I am sorry if what I said was taken the wrong way I did not mean that you were stupid or anything like that.

 

I was just trying to explain why I thought it was good:(

 

I know, it was a rant in general and not aimed at you.

[Guest JM5712]

A sober message for all banks and their staff.

 

I suppose that the banks won't care but maybe it will help to jog some of the staff who feel ambivalent about the business of charges.

 

And what do you suggest the bank workers do about it??? Revolt???

Get real [edit]

[Guest Mumofthreeboys]

Get real you [edit]!

 

To clarify, who is the [edit]?

[mochamoo]

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[Guest JM5712]

not you!

The person who thinks that bank staff are responsible for banks policy. They follow it not make it!

[Guest Mumofthreeboys]

Sorry If I upset you mumof3boys!

 

You didn't at all xx

[Struggling_Simon]

I know that the material could be classed as 'sick' or potentially offensive, but the reality of this dilemma SHOULD be made powerful and emotive.

 

Just my 0.02p worth.

[Guest ian cognito]

I can't help feeling this is likely to make people who are already under pressure even more desperate, it may be aimed at the banks but there are many walking a very thin line because of debt, do we really want them to think they can put the banks on a guilt trip??

 

I'm with Jules and Mum on this one.

[mlloyd]

I am happy that people are discussing the Poem / Video it has had the desired effect. I believe that if the video opens a few peoples eyes or push’s people into taking action against their banks then the video is a success.

 

I apologise if anyone has been offended by it but it is something I feel strongly portrays how many people feel and how I have personally felt.

 

I am currently battling HSBC to get £5000 of illegal bank charges back.

 

Thanks for ALL the continuing feedback.

[Gertrude]

Hi Matt

 

Excellent video

 

It brings it home how many people are in the same boat and it makes it very real and sad that we are treated this way.

 

Gertrude:(

[crfx250]

superb

[wsm36]

Just to add my 2p worth, I thought this was very well done and it does reflect what people have done and what some CAG members have probably thought about doing, even if it was for a split second.

On a personal note regarding this, my brother was £43000 in debt, some was his own doing and some was the banks and he took his own life on January 3rd last year which was devastating for our entire family, so I am on a personal vendetta against the banks. Every single £1 I get from them I dedicate to my brother, who was only 43 years old.