So I’m reading an online article yesterday about the Balfour Declaraion. As ya do. And on the ‘page’ were related articles. One of which said ‘read this about PPI, very important’, an article, not from those annoying bastards who phone up every 20 minutes through the entire working week to see if you’ve made your claim yet, this was an article in the Telegaraph. So I read it and on the page was ‘FREE CHECK FOR PPI’, and as I’ve never looked into it, my interest was piqued. So I hit the link and was taken to a simple ‘name, postcode, phone number and we’ll call you back’ message. I did read the ‘terms & conditions’ though, which stated: we’ll check whether you’re entitled to make a claim. This is FREE but if you proceed we’ll take 30% of your ‘winnings’, etc, etc. But if you choose to make your own claim, the service is FREE.

Half an hour later Jason’s on the phone, checking my mortgage history details. Nice feller. Ish. And then he says that it’ll take 10 days to get hear from the banks then we can proceed. “Ok”, I said, “then I can decide whether to proceed or not? Because finding out whether there is a claim to be made is free, right?” Silence. “Er, hello? Jase-mate?” Oh, he says, no, not exactly. Because it costs us 10 quid each bank and if you don’t proceed we may charge a fee.

“So where does the ‘FREE!!!!’ come into it, precisely?” Errrrr, its not free, we charge.

Ok, so the banks mis-sold policies; they mis-represented them. And these scummy, ambulance-chasing morons make that crime right by mis-representing their own services? Are we going to spend the next 10 years being phoned to ‘claim against mis-sold PPI, mis-sold claim companies’?

More importantly, and whilst still on a ‘high’ from Spurs win on Wednesday, the inevitable paranoia starts to creep in. Real Madrid will want Harry Kane now even more than they did before. Ronaldo is yesterday’s (gender-undefined) man, Harry is all man. And better (based on nothing but love). Dele Alli will be a must. They’ve always wanted Pochettino. Throw in Harry Winks, Eric Dier, Jan Vertongen and Kieren Trippier and we might as well just rename the new stadium ‘The Tottenham Bernabau’ and lose the cockerel altogether!

Keep away Madrid. Worry about Catalonia, leave N17 alone.

Happy Friday

A xxxx