A Modern Day Marxist
Posted in Good on 21. Sep, 2009
Nothing riles my inner Socialist like banks. Bank charges; bank loans; banks getting it wrong and messing up the economy.
And there’s nothing like a full-blown recession to kick-start a blame campaign. There are 2.47 million people out of work right now. The greedy, nasty banks got us all into this.
Piggy bank: the only kind of bank it's acceptable to like these days
But surfing the tide of bank hatred with a halo and wings is the heroic Martin Lewis of moneysaving expert fame.
He’s inspired a nation to call the bluff of the banks. “Just don’t pay them.” he advises on unlawful bank fees, between imparting reams of knowledge and turning stereotypes on their heads. This one, which he said to the Guardian, is a corker: “My hope is that, in a year, if a man doesn’t pay with a restaurant voucher on a first date, she won’t go with him again because she’d think he wasn’t safe enough handling money,” Brilliant.
Consumer champion or tightest man in Britain (as sweet old Phil Schofield once introduced him as), he should be in charge of the country, not just his website.
I think he might just be Karl Marx reincarnated.
He called Lewis tight: easy to do when you earn a six-figure salary yourself
