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I reported yesterday on the Daily Express's excellent investigative journalism that had seen it unearth a new and dangerous threat facing Britain today: men from the 1940s, some of whom are wearing camel-hair coats and have pencil moustaches, are destroying the very fabric of our society.
Today's Metro continues the theme. Apparently these shady characters - like Flash Harry from the St Trinian's films, though not the Russell Brand version, obviously, the talent-free hedge-a-like twerp - have taken a change in tack. No longer will they try and flog you some soap flakes or half a pound of kidneys in the saloon bar of your local pub; they've moved on to bigger and better targets.
Yes, shifty post-war Black Market traders have managed to force the merger between Halifax and Lloyds. Er, that's Halifax Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB - hmm, I get the impressions that mergers in the banking sector may have happened before, no? And I don't think anyone back then decided that it was all the fault of Private Walker out of Dad's Army. Ah well, you live and learn.
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September 18th, 2008 - 15:30
It’s catching. Alex Salmond said ‘spiv’ on Radio 5 yesterday.
I’m looking forward to seeing more of it in Fleet Street – The Express warning of more ‘foreign johnnies’ coming to steal our jobs and eat our swans and The Mail fuming against ‘rotters and bounders’ pushing up the crime rate.
It happened briefly in the 90s when James Hewitt was branded a ‘cad’ for nobbing the Queen of our Hearts – a word previously last uttered by Billy Bunter.