Reply #36: The Royal Bank of Scotland, the Halifax BoS and, I think, Lloyds drastically reduced their

[Joe Chi Minh]

overdraft charges in the UK, last week. Nice to see the effects of globalisation hitting the big guys for once, to the benefit of the little guy.

A clear reversal of the normal neoliberal economic order. I expect it will be a fair old while, before they feel the benefit of any trickle up effect from the peasantry, but at least it makes revolution less likely.

King Louis XXVI of France to the Duc de Liancourt: "Mais, c'est une revolte?" (But, is it a revolt?)

Dukey ("de maniere visionnaire", as someone put it): "Non, Sire. C'est une revolution!" (No, Sire. It is a revolution!)

I think it was after the fall of the Bastille.