Do you remember the Bank Manager?

I remember them in the fifties.

He  wore a three piece suit, drove a Rover car and lived in a detached house.

Even in the sixties and seventies the service he provided was first rate.

Probity is a word that comes to mind re all their dealings.

Now we have Danske Bank, which does not want its head office to be listed , in case it costs them money.

Probity is not a word one could apply to its venal staff who would take a pensioner’s fuel payment to reduce an overdraft.

Probity is not a word that comes to mind when the senior staff have sex with the junior women in the office.

Probity is not a word one could apply when a staff member who snooped on a customer’s account is still employed there.

But that’s twenty-first century banking for you.