Please accept my apologies. I made a mistake this morning. The video on banking was made in April last year. We reissued it because I am on holiday and we did not have enough time, partly because both Thomas and I were just too tired, and we had major IT issues last week, to make sufficient videos before I went away on holiday this week.
The four reissued videos to be published whilst I am away were amongst those that were popular the first time round. This one included a reference to the government's guarantee on bank deposits, noting that the figure was £85,000 at the time that it was made. It is now, of course, £120,000.
Rarely has such an issue ever been the cause of so many comments on the blog this morning. I have deleted many. I am sorry that I got this wrong. At the same time, could I ask that you accept that I can make mistakes and, in this case, the mistake was in reissuing an old video without checking the details?
I have now spent a lot of holiday time addressing this.
There are three ways to deal with this.
One is that there is no material published when I want to take time off.
Another is that I turn off the comments on the blog.
The third, given that I have repeatedly flagged issues around comments and being away, is that more care is taken before posting comments. You are asking to use my time
Right now, it seems to me that the future of this blog, with comments turned on, is increasingly unlikely.
Might I please ask for just a little tolerance and understanding? The alternative is that I will give up.
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Hi Richard, I hope you’re enjoying your holiday and taking plenty of time for R&R
I – and I’m sure many other followers – noticed the mistake. But, considering you’d said you were going to re-issue older videos while you were on holiday, I automatically assumed this was one of them – again, as I’m sure many ‘regulars’ did.
The important thing to me was that the views and information were still spot on.
Just a quick suggestion which may be particularly relevant to students etc who discover you… Would you possibly consider a short at some time mentioning specifically that, unless very carefully used, credit cards aren’t your friend either? They’re another form of debt that banks like to keep us in. And a highly profitable one too if not paid off in full.
It may not be the way you’re heading, or just more extra work you can all do without. Just a thought
Noted
Thanks