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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Barclays Bank Tightened Its Belt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barclays<br>Bank <br>tightened <br>its belt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only paid out <br>£3.4 billion <br>in staff bonuses<br>down 7.0 percent<br> <br>compared <br>with 2009<br>we salute <br>severity<br> <br>of Barclay’s <br>noble sacrifice<br>as bad debts <br>fell dramatically.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barclays cut <br>its staff bonuses <br>in line with <br>a government</div><div style="margin:10px 0">brokered deal? <br>Prime Minister <br>David Cameron's <br>official spokesman </div><div style="margin:10px 0">rumoured <br>to have received<br>a nice back<br>hander</div><div style="margin:10px 0">' declined <br> to comment <br> on Barclays' <br> remuneration, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> telling reporters: <br> 'Clearly, Barclays' <br> pay policy <br> is ultimately <br> <br> a matter <br> for them <br> and their <br> board.' '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank God for<br>government-brokered <br>deal to clamp down <br>on excessive pay? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sly Barclays' Bank <br>pulled the wool <br>over public eyes<br>played shell game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thimblerig, Three shells <br>and a pea quick follow<br>swift hidden bonuses.<br>How was sly money paid? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Finance minister George <br> Osborne said total bonuses <br> paid to British-based staff <br> of the biggest banks would </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> be lower than last year <br> as part of Project Merlin, <br> brokered after weeks <br> of talks with the Conservative</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> -led coalition. ' <br>Therefore how <br>did sneaky Barclays <br>increase bonuses? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas slight of hand<br>twas slight of hand<br>exclaimed shiny Bob <br>Diamond leading band.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Watch staff bonuses<br>down 7.0 percent<br>but yes yes yes yes <br>total pay rose a quarter </div><div style="margin:10px 0">' as this included <br>payments deferred <br>during the global <br>financial crisis. ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">' Explaining the cut <br> in Barclays' bonus pot, <br> Diamond said: <br>'We are committed </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> to demonstrating <br> that we are both <br> responsible in our <br> compensation </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> decisions and <br> practices and <br> that we take our <br> regulatory </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> obligations and <br> UK government <br> commitments <br> seriously. ' Really! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">American Diamond<br>chief executive <br>of Barclay’s <br>is infamous in Britain </div><div style="margin:10px 0">' for pocketing <br> huge bonuses <br> as head of <br> Barclays' highly </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> successful investment <br> banking division. '<br>Bobby Diamond pocketed<br>a 9 million pounds bonus? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I say average pay <br>at Barclays Capital <br>rose from £191,000 <br>to £236,000; does </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this not rather <br>made a 'mockery' <br>of the so-called <br>Project Merlin? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor staff only <br>£45,000 extra <br>read all about it<br>its true its true! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas British families <br>living on ten pound <br>a day I rue I rue I rue.<br>Mere £3,650 a year</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fear I fear for their <br>children living in <br>severe poverty oh dear.<br>Project Merlin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">is Project Miracle <br>for fat cat bankers <br>lapping up all de <br>cream but David </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cameron canna see <br>past his nose canna<br>see big bonuses for <br>irresponsible bankers </div><div style="margin:10px 0">fiddling file figures is<br>unacceptable immoral<br>in moral English society<br>poor anger will cad rub.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>See also the poem ‘Diamond Barclays’ Bank’.<br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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as bad debts 
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