£5 - Are You Having A Laugh??

I loved this letter sent to the Guardian so much - that I have to include it in the blog. I completely agree with the writer.

"I'm driving along the road and I see a large poster on a hoarding. It's telling me that if I open a Halifax Reward Current Account, for every month that I pay in £1000, they will give me £5. Yes, five whole pounds. The jaw drops and stays there. What enormous cheek. How poor, crushed, grovelling and simple do the Halifax think we are, to be grateful for £5? This is the outfit that had Nick Hornby as chief executive, whose salary was £1.9m, pension £2.4m, and who has earned £60,000 as a consultant since leaving. He probably doesn't know what £5 is. It's a single digit. But most of us know what £5 from the Halifax is. It's an insult."

- Michelle Hanson

Brilliant, Michelle. I don't think any of us could have said it better.