Weird Coincidences

As well as your comments about Robert Peston may I thank the Daily Mail for pointing out yet another coincidence about the Andrew Marr on Sunday, where Andrew was nowhere to be seen but we had the wonderful Sophie as his substitute. Convenient that Andrew was not around to interview Lord Mandelson, would the good Lord have come on if it had actually been Andrew, I just ask?

As for Sir Brian Pittman also being on the programme, the first banker to appear because the others may not actually like any questions, even though Sir Brian is of course now retired from LloydsTSB, as Chairman or Chief Executive.

My point is that according to the Daily Mail, a paper we can trust to give the readers the truth on these matters, Robert Peston 'is a close friend of Roland Rudd, whose firm Finsbury runs PR for Northern Rock and LloydTSB'.

Now is it not weird that Northern Rock is now nationalsised and the only banker willing to come on to the Andrew Marr programme was Sir Brian Pittman of LloydsTSB. What an absolute coincidence.

Now, the other item I think we ought to be told is that some sponsors of football clubs have hit financial problems and it is noticeable the number of clubs now without any logos on their team shirts. When I saw match reports of the Newcastle game guess what, yes they still had the shirt sponsors of Northern Rock embalzoned across their shirts. I hope that taxpayers money is not going into the club whilst there are reports that home repossessions are increasing for those with Northern Rock mortgage holders.

Finally, noted that Lord Mandelson was drawn to bring in the 'R' word, the word would not pass his lips. In the meantime the governor of the bank of England issues the 'R' word and guess what the pound plummets. I wonder if there will now be a vendetta against Mr King because he dared to tell the truth.