Friday, October 10, 2008

And continues to collapse

The 10th was spent glued to the Computer. Penny took the kids out for the day and I worked on the website. It was a Drupal based forum and completely new to me. I sent emails to Drupal asking if they could possibly help, but never did receive any reply.



I received some offers for help from others claiming to be in the same position but had to be careful as money was involved and the risk of fraud quite high.



More news of the collapse drifted in. Seems that the UK Treasury had deliberately forced Kaupthing UK into administration and had taken control of the assets. Maybe all was not lost as the Isle of Man bank was actually solvent except for the £550Million in London which was now being controlled by the UK Government. Surely they would realise what was happening and get the 550 Million back to KSF so that it could continue to operate.



The next few days would bring more bad news as the UK Government completely ignored the loud screams of agony from a number of KSF depositors and the IoM Government (Tynwald) just semed to run round like headless chickens.



An email came in from a person, who seemed genuine, saying was also affected and that he had experience of webmastering Drupal based sites. I tentatively agreed and started to bring him up to speed on what i'd been doing. It was quite a God send as I was struggling - both emotionally and technically with the site - with no experience of Drupal or even of Webmastering; I was a Developer, not a website administrator! The guy who started to take over the management of the site continues, to this day, to do a good job.



Life started it's inextricable slide. Made all the more frightening by the total disregard for our plight by the Isle of Man and UK Governments. I will always look back on October 2008 as a shameful month for both the UK Parliament - the opposition parties as well as the incumbants are equally at fault - and Isle of Man Tynwald. Both Governments could have averted this disaster in the golden couple of weeks after the UK Treasury acted but, for whatever reason, didn't.