LTBs - Bankers in the spotlight again

Following the BBC's Panarama documentary last night (28/01/13), the world of banking was in uproar this morning.

Speaking about the allegations, one unamed banking source said to our reporter "how dare DWP back-to-work scheme providors use this term? It is totally demeaning to clients and paints a totally invalid picture of hard to place benefit claimants."

In a shock move, the banking world has promised to use the libel courts to their full extent to claim for damages caused to their industry. Another bank insider claimed "This term is used by the UK population as a whole to describe bankers, how dare they try and misuse it, we are the true LTB's in this case and we will fight to protect our right to solely have that term used against us."

Our reporters on the street asked a number of passer by's what they thought.

Mr S.M.Head said "Well I always use the term LTB when I have to go to the bank, when Mrs Head asked 'where are you going dear,' I always reply 'to see the LTBs dear' - how will I describe where I am going now, she may get the wrong impression that I am looking for a job"

Mr R.Twit stated "This is typical of the ConDem government, people trademark expressions like LTB and then have the rug pulled from underneath them, often breaking limbs"

Mr A.Hole questioned the bankers forthcoming libel action "Typical bankers, always thinking of themselves, what about those poor unfortunates who, through no fault of their own, are disabled and cannot work, what of their rights to be described as LTBs?"

As a result of last nights allegations, we understand that an early day motion is being discussed in Parliament today about a new way to help the disabled back into work. Specifically by implanting them with GPS tracking chips to see where they go during the day and determine if any are moonlighting or visiting places where they may be enjoying themselves.

Asked about this motion, our editor-in-chief Mr R.Hough said "this motion, if passed, would be a big leap forward in our trend of embedding maps into our news stories. Specifically it would allow us to show the public where the disabled people are congregating and send our reporters to ask their opinions, which alongside most other news outlets, we would use to back up our current views on the economy, or not, as the case may be, depending on how I slept last night"

We were going to ask a number of disabled charities for their comments, but we ran out of time.

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