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Poetry Corner: 'We Are Santander'
Charting the inexorable rise of the high street conquistadores. In rhyming verse.
Charting the inexorable rise of the high street conquistadores
Banco Santander continued its invasion of British towns this week with the news that it will acquire 318 RBS branches. Can this modern-day Spanish Armada be defeated?
Judging by your comments on our recent stories, you're not particularly enthused about the prospect of Santander taking over more of Britain's banking sector. Since last week's Poetry Corner revealed you to be a lyrical lot, why not express your feelings in verse?
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7 comments so far. Why not have your say?
Jonas Cord
Aug 06, 2010 at 17:40
"We are Santander.....
"....and we don't care !"
report thisbusy bee
Aug 06, 2010 at 18:33
absolutely terrible bank - never been worse - especially if you are an Attorney from someone - dreadful - suitable words escape me......
report thisberngram
Aug 06, 2010 at 22:52
You've got it all wrong busy bee. Santander is a great bank.
Your problem is that you're a customer . My privatised Abbey shares were converted to Santander and all they do is send me lovely dividend cheques about four times a year.
report thisAnonymous 1 needed this 'off the record'
Aug 07, 2010 at 00:21
berngram
How are the Santander shares doing now? Was it a 1 for 1 exchange for the Abbey Shares.? I bought 3000 shares soon after they were launched and managed to sell then for £13.90 back in 1999. I took the profits to use as a deposit on a BTL house and that almost tripled in value before selling it 8 years later, good dividends from that too...
report thisGristybeasty
Aug 07, 2010 at 10:45
Dickery, Dickery Dock
Santander wound up its clock,
It gobbled up AL and it gobbled A,
Oh what a happy?, crappy day,
Now what to do, a Flamenco or two?
How about a grab at the Treasury too?
report thisJ Bewey
Aug 07, 2010 at 11:18
This is song to the tune of Summer Time Blues with credit to Eddie Cochrane and The Who;
I'm gonna raise a fuss
And I'm gonna raise a holler!
I've been working all my life
Just to try to raise a dollar.
Every time I call Abbey
To sort their fraud mistake; no dice son, account closed you're to f***in late.
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do
Cos there aint no cure for the 'Sintander' Blues.
Well my father went and told me
Son we're gonna get your money.
We've got 'Sintander' by the b*****ks
You'll have it by this Sunday.
Antonio he says; 'rubber cheques or not: we're not paying up, you mouthy little sot!'
And then I got to wonder what I was gonna do
I could see no cure for the 'Sintander' Blues'!
So we took a break and told it to the Police station
And wrote on the blog of the Citywire websation.
Victoria she said, and this is a quote; 'I want to tell your story to the whole UK nation'.
And now 'Sintander' will wonder,
What they are gonna do:
Cos we're going to show them some real Summer Time Blues.
Well Victoria did the trick;
Liam quickly got his money.
But he's telling his story to the BBC TV Station.
If 'Sintander' think that 50 quid will do the trick;
Antoni Horta-Osorio really is a little thick.
And now 'Sintander' knows what the little man can do:
Because we've given them the 'Full Bore Bewey Blues'.
report thisP T
Aug 09, 2010 at 10:13
got no style
got no service
got no phones
got no staff
but got your money
so just get lost
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