Surprised the Co-op Bank is failing?

Don't think the weekend IS any longer ... surely the weekend stays the same and it's the next working week which is 20% shorter?

Ana

Obviously me too.

I am mathematically thick!

Oh yes!

I was looking for grammar or spelling mistakes...

It's the maths. The weekend is 50% longer.

Ana ...a weekend is 2 days therefore a 3 day 'weekend' is 50% longer not a third longer.

Co-op should stick to food and leave the sums to those who can do sums

OK I'll confess - I don't get it...

What's wrong with it?

Jings

Oh bug--r.

I am sorry, hands up, committed the Cardinal sin, didn't read OP first.

Halo slipping obviously.

You do "get it" don't you? (obviously Flickety does)

It was a sort of 'Old Boys' network that has been poorly governened over latter years and it has got it's fingered burnt.

Even Labour's Lord Myner's quit because he said it was ungovernable in it's present state and there was no apparent will on the part of the board to make necessary changes.

I think it's a shame the Labour Party jumped ship, fair weather friends it would appear. Mind you, they haven't moved very far from where the branch fell have they.

The "corporate structure" of the Co-op movement is so incredibly complicated that it must be very hard to change anything. With all those differenct Co-ops having voting rights etc
I bet Frontera (NZ dairy co-op) and that massively successful Spanish co-op have a more sensible structure, surely?

I was a very satisfied customer of Smile, the Co-op on-line bank for over 30 years. However, last week I switched to First Direct, partly because of the warning signs of the trouble the Co-op Group is in. Mainly though, I switched because I became totally disillusioned with the bank after the Rev. Paul Flowers fiasco. How could they expect to retain customer confidence when they picked a person like him to be Chairman of the bank?

, but I shouldn't be. Some years ago I saw some official (properly painted and assembled) road signs in central Oxford that said 'Carridgeway repairs'. I still have the photo.