“Sales and Marketing” has to be the most soul-destroying job of them all.
You are obliged to lie to everyone about why they need to buy your product, lie about that product’s prospects once the sale is made, and then side-step any future “after sales” issues that might put a dent in the salesperson’s commissions.
“Extendeded Warrentries” for example, are a fiddle enough - but you then try to claim on them when something goes wrong, even within the original warrantry period! Like making an insurance claim, the opening arguments of the insurer will always be something like "I’m sorry sir, you’re not actually covered for that. You ARE covered for damage of less than £75 though, subject to your excess of course.
FFS that means these shysters have done everything in their power to ensure the money only flows in one direction.
I’ve just been offered a discount on a new item, IF I take out the extended warrantry, which I don’t want. SO… I accept it, make the first installment payment (warrantry is seperate from the main purchase) - and then cancel the installments at my bank’s end. Have I done anything wrong? Possession is nine-tenths of the law. I’ve had firms try and bust me for defaulint so-called “Agreements” to buy their crap in the past, such as “FreeView” which I cancelled when it turned out to not be free for the channels I was promised, but never got. They sent me a bill, threatened me with court action, and finally when ignored all their letters - trashed my credit rating, when I hadn’t borrowed any money from them in the first place. I took back control, and the consequences of me doing thus - are that I cannot borrow money. BIG deal! I live within my means, but I won’t bloody well be ripped off. If I can’t have it without taking the bum deal, then I’ll take the bum deal, and cancel the subscription, satisfied that they’ll never ever win a case against me in court as to “Why I cannot walk away from this bum deal”.
That’s how we should deal with “Brexit” now, IMHO.
Just default all our obligations beyond “paying for stuff in transit”. We could have stopped paying Brussels on 24th June 2016 - IF our government didn’t mind “defaulting” stuff with impunity, as any Imperialist in this country would surely have done a century ago…
Instead, we continue to pay them the money we promised the NHS on the side of the bus, making the whole thing a lie, hoping that the public will change their mind about Brexit on the whole.
Our politicians cannot be arsed to do Brexit. Even David Davis is NOT getting Brexit done, because he keeps giving away concessions for a whole pile of nothing in return!
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. If we stopped the payments - the EU would be keen to speed up Brexit - because it’s costing them money in MEP’s wages such that they’ll kick all MEPs out of the EU parliement overnight at very least! If we keep on paying the money? - The EU can relax. Take a seat. Kick it down the road forever.
The passage of time works in the EU’s favour all the while we continue to pay.
You CANNOT “Take back control” except by refusing further payment.
I can only assume our politicans are being royally bribed to act thus. It makes no sense that Parliament is 75% in favour of “staying the the EU” UNLESS they are being bribed to act as Traitors to the UK, all the while locking up Nationalists for standing on street corners, telling the truth.
I fear Brexit will never be completed in our lifetimes. We already know that Remainers are waiting for Brexiteers to “Die off” so they can get their second refererndum, and fiddle the result even then.
The question on the ballot paper will be
Do you wish to (1) Raise taxes to 75% to pay for a Hard Brexit Bill or (2) Let’s just forget the whole thing.
Silly thing is, Cameron could have done this in the first instance. He clearly didn’t want or expect a majority win in the 2015 general election.
Even now - the EU could make a knock-out blow by promising UK workers “To cut taxes to 10% for the first £100k of earnings, and raise taxes to 75% for all earnings above that” - to get us to vote for the EU to be our overlords forever. “Hearts and Minds”?
There’s no limit to how much QE could be done to facilitiate this. That the EU just never bothered trying to bribe the actual public" smacks of their utter contempt OF that public of course.