Sad state of UK on TV as lawyers go to the dogs

JUST lately, I have found that observing the various TV advertisements in the afternoon can give quite an insight into the state of the nation.

It began a few years back with the “We will buy your old gold jewellery” adverts, followed by adverts from companies that would “cash any cheque” for you. These companies also began to fill our local High Streets too, followed by modern revamped styles of the old pawn shop as we knew them.

Then, as more and more people became unemployed, resulting in them staying at home, we began to see a blossoming of “On-line Bingo” advertised – encouraging those already bereft of money to gamble away what little they had left in the hope of vast riches.

Now, of course, we have those distasteful but legalised loan shark companies advertising on TV – blatantly encouraging folk deeper into debt by offering quick fix loans with extortionate interest charges that must make most of the High Street banks green with envy!

These are merely a new generation of the door to door heavy mobs that used to exist – I personally feel these companies ought to be banned from TV advertising all together.

However, I feel by far the most irritating advertisers (apart from sofa companies!) are the ambulance chasers – those firms of solicitors who pursue any flimsy claim on folks behalf dangling the hope of easy money, and as a result causing insurance cover for the rest of us to cost even more.

I particularly dislike the one that features the “underdog” because its quite obvious that the animal is a fraudulent cheat – bandaged leg and ear in one advert and yet can stand quite easily on his bad leg and wave his crutch about, while in the other advert where he has a “alleged” broken arm and damaged tail he blatantly wags his tail as he walks off, proving to be like many claimants these companies handle – utter frauds milking the system!