Hello to you from the epicentre of consumer crappiness that is the Bitterwallet Worst Company In Britain 2009 competition, as we work our way towards finding out who will be new holders of the golden turd trophy.

By the way, if there’s anyone at all left at the HQ of 2008’s winner Setanta and you’re reading this and you know where the trophy is; erm, we’d like it back please – your year of shame is almost over.

Today’s crunch clash is a showdown between two modern media giants that have miffed a bunch of you over the past year – we’re talking Sky and we’re talking Microsoft. You have until midnight to vote for one or neither of them. Or, if you understand how such things work, both of them, or one of them loads and loads of times. Whatever. Just vote. Or don’t.

Yesterday saw a major pow-wow between Comet and DSGi – find out who emerged in tatters here. Also, you can bring yourself up to speed with the results to date here and, owing to immense public demand, you can ogle a picture of a large stuffed giraffe outside a Travelodge here. That is all.

Here’s an electrical retail showdown in the latest round of voting in our Worst Company In Britain 2009 saga – with the might of DSGi pitted against the relatively puny Comet.

‘But, but, but, but,’ some of you stumble to mumble, ‘DSGi is made up from loads of stores like Currys, PC World and Dixons. Comet is just a store all on its own. It’s not fair!’

Yeah, but DSGi’s stores may have different names but they’re all exactly the frigging same. With PC World possibly more ridiculous than the others.

But it won’t be a cakewalk, as anyone who has experienced the lottery that is Comet’s reserve and collect service will testify to.

So you lot have got until midnight tonight to register your disgust at the one you loathe the most. Don’t be shy – you know you want to.

You can catch up with the outcome of yesterday’s battle between Tesco and Ryanair here, swot up on the results so far here and stare in wonder at an exclusive picture of a huge stuffed giraffe outside a Travelodge here.

Let’s kick off the week with another showdown between a pair of right old Marmites when it comes to providing customer satisfaction – Tesco and Ryanair.

They’re both the type of company that will divide opinion among you lot – for every punter who is repulsed by Sky Captain Michael ‘David’ O’Leary’s ‘business practices,’ another one will claim that they get you from A to B on time and with no frills, which is exactly what you want.

Likewise with Tesco – they claim that ‘every little helps’ but there was nothing little about the number of nominations they received and they were easily the most reviled supermarket according to the Bitterwallet readers.

So you’ve got until midnight tonight to decide which of the gruesome twosome will be let off the hook and which will progress to the second round.

You’ve also got until midday today to vote on Orange v Dell and Virgin Media v Littlewoods, while all of the round one results so far are here. For contractual reasons that we don’t quite understand, there’s a picture of a giant stuffed giraffe lurking outside a Travelodge here.

Here’s today’s first round clash in our Worst Company In Britain 2009 contest – the public vote that’s got the whole nation gripped.

Many of you (and we mean MANY) nominated Virgin Media as the company who had got on your wick the most in 2009. Meanwhile, enough of you threw the name Littlewoods into the mixer for them to be in the final 32 as well. But we’d be stunned if they made it into the last 16. But that’s over to you.

You’ve got until midday on Monday to sort this one out for us. You can also continue to vote in the clash between Orange and Dell here – that one also ends at noon tomorrow. Or you can check out the results to date here. As ever, there’s a picture of a large stuffed giraffe outside a Travelodge for you to enjoy here.

Now then – there shouldn’t be any doubt about today’s first round showdown… or should there?

In it, one of the top seeds, Orange, go head to head with Dell, one of the lesser lights of crappy customer service.

Where will it end? Will we see our first 100% victory? Doubtful, but the bookies are keeping their heads down on this one. Could be because it’s the weekend like…

Speaking of which, the voting deadline has been extended until noon on Monday in order to give the Monday to Friday crew a go on the voting.

You can catch up with the result of yesterday’s tête-à-tête between Carphone Warehouse and T-Mobile here, scroll idly through the story so far here, and as ever, there’s a picture of a large stuffed giraffe outside a Travelodge here.

Our quest continues to whittle away at some of Britain’s shabbiest companies before holding one aloft like a wet turd and roaring: “There. There it is. There is the Worst Company In Britain 2009.” But we need your help, or to be more precise, votes.

Today’s clash of the bastards has a mobile phone flavour to it. Locking horns in the ball pool of shite customer service are Carphone Warehouse and T-Mobile. After being pelted by your barrage of hate-votes, one will emerge unscathed and slightly embarrassed, while the other will be sent scuttling into round two, where it will face further abuse for its disgusting crimes.

Start now!

You can find out who won yesterday’s skirmish between Virgin Money and Barclays here and catch up on all the results so far here. You can see a picture of a large stuffed giraffe outside a Travelodge here.

Hello to you and you and you and you! On the back of the bank charges farce (and let’s face it, it IS a farce) we’re pitting two financial institutions against each other in today’s brow-to-brow face-off in our Worst Company In Britain 2009 marathon.

In the git corner is Virgin Money – providers of mortgages, insurance, credit cards and heartache. In the shit corner is Barclays – providers of all of the above and more… and free bookies’ pens too.

You mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell us which of the grim pair makes you want to sick up your dinner more than the other one. You’ve got until midnight, so take your time.

You can catch up with the result of yesterday’s clash between the Royal Bank Of Scotland and Royal Mail here and all of the results so far are here. You can find a picture of a giant toy giraffe outside a Travelodge here.

Well, we’re still reeling at the result of last night’s big vote. We can’t believe that you lot wanted Justin Colin to leave the jungle so soon. When he still had so much left to give, like… erm, well, like… ah, nope. Never mind.

Meanwhile, it was knife-edge seat-edge stuff here at Bitterwallet as 3 and Phones4U fought it out until the midnight deadline for your votes. You can see the result and find out who has made it through to round two here.

On to today and it’s a head to head between a pair of regally-named, tragically-mismanaged companies – Royal Bank Of Scotland and Royal Mail. Vote now and let us know which of them has disturbed you more in 2009. You’ve got until midnight.

Commiserations to BT, lying battered and bloodied in the consumer hate gutter after almost 1,800 of you voted for them in yesterday’s Worst Company In Britain 2009 head-to-head with the plucky minnows from United Utilities.

Special technology that we’ve just made up showed that 70% of BT voters clicked on the vote button with extra aggression, suggesting that you REALLY hate them. Well done.

Today sees a numerically-monikered phonedown showdown between the clowns at 3 (or Three, or Trois if you’re French) and the bell ends that are Phones4U. There are ample reasons to vote for either company – in May, 3 tried to sneakily scrap their ‘3 Like Home’ service but we caught them, helping scores of their customers to walk away from their contracts.

Meanwhile, we’re still trembling at the thought of Phones4U’s current ad blitz, which features a pissing Santa. Mmm… what a delightful festive scene.

So, you’ve got until midnight to cast your votes to decide who goes through to the second round. Why not entertain us with your tales of woe involving either or both companies. GO!

It’s another day, and here’s another pair of companies who have cheesed off enough of you for them to make it on to the shortlist of Bitterwallet’s Worst Company In Britain 2009 competition.

Today’s pairing sees United Utilities square up against the shitty might of BT – which of them will progress into the second round?

Your votes will decide and you have until midnight to make your voice heard.

Here’s the second of this weekend’s showdowns in our Worst Company In Britain 2009 gladiatorial beef-fest.

Today we bring you lower-case energy gonks npower and capitalised games gonks GAME. But which is worse? There’s only one way to find out… VOTE!

You’ve got until Monday at noon to make your feelings known and you can catch up with See Tickets versus British Gas – voting in that one will end at the same time.

There’ll be another head-to-head here tomorrow as we continue our quest to determine which company has caused more of your hair loss than any other this year.

Time for another showdown between two of Britain’s biggest corporate shits as our Worst Company In Britain competition rolls steadily on.

We’ve got a double bill for you over the weekend, and as we know some of you spend your weekends flying kites and making love instead of reading this site, we’ll be keeping the polls open until noon on Monday.

First up is gig merchants See Tickets against energy pipers British Gas. Let’s be honest, we’re not offering any odds on the outcome of this one if the comments in your nominations are anything to go by…

Call back tomorrow for another head-to-head of the morally-dead.

It’s day two of our vote for the Worst Company In Britain 2009. In yesterday’s showdown, Halifax Bank Of Scotland beat Lloyds TSB at a canter with more than two thirds of the votes, which could translate into the fact that by merging with HBOS, the Lloyds Group have acquired the banking equivalent of a dead cow lying face down in a pond. Or something.

We’ve got another bank in our sights today, Nat West, and they’re going up against one of the big guns when it comes to pissing off the public, eBay. Cast your votes folks, you’ve got until midnight tonight…

The time has come for you all to give a name to your pain. The voting for ‘Bitterwallet’s Worst Company In Britain 2009’ showdown starts here.

We’ve compiled a list of the 32 most loathed companies from your nominations and over the next six weeks we’ll whittle them down via head-to-head voting until we’re left with a worthy successor to last year’s winner, the late, not-lamented Setanta.

Today we begin with a big banking face-off. Who gets your goat the most out of Halifax Bank Of Scotland and Lloyds TSB?

Of course, they’re both part of the giant Lloyds Banking group, but which bit of it gets on your tits more?

Tell us now… voting closes at midnight tonight.

The nominations are closed and the voting starts soon for Bitterwallet’s Worst Company Of 2009 competition.

It’ll grip you between now and the end of the year and will hopefully stop you from thinking about Kim Woodburn’s infernal jungle boobies…