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MPs and newspapers are expressing outrage at the HSBC bank after the bank was accused of being patronising when leaks revealed top executives secretly signed off on a logo which was pink, it emerged today.
The shocking colour of the bank’s logo came as it emerged the Government knew about the pinkness of HSBC advertisements before David Cameron made the bank’s executive chairman Lord Green a minister in 2010:
HSBC’s shocking pink logo
A spokesperson for Mr Cameron denied the government had been part of a cover-up over the bank’s activities and insisted there were other more important things to consider than the colour of HSBC’s logo, such as the size and shape of Amanda Holden’s nipples.
Financial expert Richard Murphy from Tax Research UK however, said while pink banking logos are not strictly illegal, they are often used as a way of distracting people from the real story of massive tax evasion and theft from the taxpayer, which is illegal.
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That’s not the only problem the world’s local bank has had. According to Private Eye, it was successfully sued for misleading advertising a year ago. One of its adverts was set in China, and featured a troubled father finally managing to get something for his daughter through saving at the world’s local bank’s very local branch in a particular Chinese city. I can’t remember which one, but the advertising watchdogs took good note, and definitely weren’t impressed. It turned out that there wasn’t a branch of HSBC in that particular city. And HSBC has been caught out making claims of having branches in several countries closer to home, such as Norway, where prospective customers have found to their cost that, er, no, there isn’t.
As for the pink logo, do you think there’s a bit of post-imperial nostalgia going on here? Once upon a time, one-sixth of the Earth’s landmass was covered in pink ink as part of the British Empire. Well, the captains and the kings have departed, but some on the Right would want it all back, like Niall Ferguson. Besides, you wouldn’t want one of the great capitalist institutions to go red, would you?
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ANGER AND OUTRAGE AT HSBC COVER UP
There was anger today that a well known gang of money launderers have been masquerading as a banking organisation.Operating under the name HSBC BANK the shady organisation, which for five years has been known to have been facilitating a number of criminal activities including tax evasion.
SHOCKING
A spokesperson for the Police who did not wish to be named ‘claimed ‘the extent of this organisation is shocking. We have to face the possibility that their network of activities extends into every town and city in the UK ‘
RIGHT HAND MAN
A Government spokesman said today ‘We want to not talk about this. Not talking about this is the right thing to do. No Government has done more to address not talking about this than this Government has’.
Sources close to other sources that should be in a position to know about these things also claimed ‘Even if we had wanted to talk about this we couldn’t have because we didn’t know about it. Tax dealings are kept at strictly arms length from minister. For example a minister might on one hand know about wrong-doing but on the other hand his closest friends and colleagues wouldn’t know anything about it
LIED’.
This was later reaffirmed by a Mr Cameron who is well known on the Westminster circuit for his Prime Minister impressions who said ‘i have been reassured that our left hand really doesn’t know what our right hand is doing. If it transpires that I have been lied to no one will be at all surprised ‘
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If you put the words pink and shocking together, lo and behold you get another colour: shocking pink! 🙂
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