RACING UNCERTAINTIES
The Great Legal Profession De-Regulation Stakes
Westminster: 6 October 2011
| Sponsors: | Office of Fair Trading sired out of Jealousy and Nihilism |
| Prize: | Destruction of the one part of the constitution still functioning. |
| Runners: | |
| ASDA: | Fixed Price Guarantee! |
| Handicap: £9.39 million fine for price fixing. | |
| SAINSBURYS: | Handicap: Fined £11 million yesterday for price fixing. |
| Try Something New today? | |
| TESCO: | Handicap: £10 million price fixing fine. Every Little Helps. |
| NEWS | |
| INTERNATIONAL: | Won’t be able to hack it. |
| NORTHERN ROCK: | Poor on the home run, or anything to do with homes. |
| CO-OPERATIVE | |
| FUNERAL SERVICES: | Dead Certs. |
| LLOYDS HBOS: | Seeking to diversify. Might try running a bank. |
| Not one for the Journey. | |
| ROYAL BANKRUPT | |
| OF SCOTLAND: | Took £22 billion in one day! Unfortunately it was from us. |
| Would have funded 10 YEARS of legal aid. | |
| Rank. Outsider. | |
All prizes donated by the Office of Fair Trading out of fines levied on supermarkets for price-fixing; that is the same Office of Fair Trading whose report led to the de-regulation of the legal profession allowing all of the law-breaking price fixing supermarkets to become law firms.
Well done OFT!!
Going: Awful to even worse
Distance: 900 years
Rust that clings to the form that strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
T S Eliot: Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Kerry captures the tragi-comic heart of this issue better than any other writer on the subject.
stevenhennessy
August 12, 2011 at 1:39 pm