MOJ PPI UCA...time for thought

[ClaimsSolicitors]

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The Claims Management Industry has taken the financial sector by storm. It is fair to say that we are not the most loved part of this, rather staid and uptight school of finance.
We have come along like the scruffy new boy who does not quite fit the bill in this rather elite school. “Not from the right sort of background, does not have the right sort of credentials. What does his Father do.....work for a living, how crass”.
From my point of view these rather stuffy organisations have been ingratiating their way around the dinner table and feeding off the host plate for too long. They have become complacent, arrogant and will quickly judge others who dare enter the room.
The financial industry in the form of the banks and other lenders, have swiftly gathered ranks and with the aid of several paid flunkies in the media, made it their urgent business to make statements that bear little resemblance to the truth. They slate the actions and advances by our new industry, by offering tales of woe added with a large slice of “we are only trying to protect the consumer”. Protect them indeed, in much the same fashion as a Farmer looking after the new spring lambs. Wouldn’t want the nasty fox getting the little darlings,” do we have enough mint sauce”.
The Claims industry needs to come together to work out what our best way forward is from this point. There are several cowboys in our bunch and a few good people with some good ideas. Now would be a good time to get together and have a strategy for the future. Other industries have a collective banner in which they set standards and allow the public to know what they can and should expect from its members.
We have all been working away in the dim glow of the new dawn and now that the sun has come out we can see who is beside us. More importantly what they are doing, if we are at all interested in our future.
It is important that we do not get attacked by the dark side in the form of the banks, lenders and media friends. If we ignore them I wonder how long it will be before they gather together, like the villagers in an old Frankenstein movie, light up their torches and storm the castle and burn it to the ground.
Is it time to circle our wagons and take stock of who is alongside us, we can ignore them whilst all is quiet. When the fighting starts we may need the collective firepower and we may need someone who knows what they are doing.
For now I have run out of clichés to lighten the grim news that things could change far more quickly than we think.

[owenyboy]

What a wee cheery soul you are .
Do you play the violin?

[Michael_Anthony]

Go write a book or start a movement - most of us are too busy making money.

[premium]

good post what prompted this, have you had bad news,

[LBClaims]

Possibly (actually definately) have a read of this from the MOJ this week...

http://www.claimsregulation.gov.uk/u...pdate_2009.pdf