"I am still feeling very, very, very confident about that [loan]. It is still very live,"
Oh dear. I'm really starting to feel sorry for Terry now. The more verys he adds, the sillier he looks.
I comfort myself with the idea that Terry perhaps knows something that you and I and Dave Burgess don't know. Perhaps he has the goods on Ali Syed and is trying to scam him in return ("I will continue to prop up your good name IN RETURN FOR SOME ACTUAL MONEY, you scamming son-of-a-suitcase"). But I don't expect a reasonable person to accept that.
This is interesting.Terry has been uncompromisingly supportive of Ali Syed throughout all of this saga. Ali Syed has a public ally with Terry, a rarity it seems.
Ali Syed's m.o. seems to be to blame affected parties for turning against him after he's failed to make scheduled payments, Racing Santander most recently. We may not have heard the end of it yet.