Sir Fred Goodwin's Home Attacked

scorza · 26 Mar 2009 at 15:18

Evangelion said:
Has this happened recently? I'd hate to think I'd missed a bit of drama.

I was thinking about Fathers4Justice attacking someone's (Harriet Harman's was it?) home in Sarf London I think?.

Jock Dodds · 26 Mar 2009 at 15:26

It just goes to show you can't be too careful!

Tefal · 26 Mar 2009 at 15:29

AJUK said:
but she didn't get a police guard! Why not, she is a citizen just like that ******** Goodwin.

Because there was no accompanying threat of "this is only the beginning" in your mum's case?

AJUK · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:58

No, but it did happen again!

bum · 26 Mar 2009 at 18:27

I want to be Fred Goodwin. So I can buy hookers...and play blackjacks

Barks · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:00

Unfortunately you can't dismantle contract law to suit the situation. It protects all of us, not just the bankers driving their Ferraris. Goodwin will get away with it and the Government need to ensure it doesn't happen again.

The fact remains however that tax payers bailing out banks is an absolute last resort and the thought that some of that money is used to pay these guys bonuses is disgusting. If the bank had not been bailed out using taxpayer's money, Goodwin would have been crying.

RDM · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:30

scott212 said:
If the bank had not been bailed out using taxpayer's money, Goodwin would have been crying.

He probably wouldn't have been as his pension pot was already quite substantial...

Beansprout · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:33

matt_fsr said:
a) Brought a private owned bank to the brink of collapse, costing each and every tax payer in this country, yourself included, a sizeable sum of money. Some of which is paying his obscene pension.

Him personally?

Where was RBS when he started? Certainly not among the largest banks in the world.

Sure, he messed up big time but so did just about everyone.

scorza · 26 Mar 2009 at 20:39

RDM said:
He probably wouldn't have been as his pension pot was already quite substantial...

It got even more substantial to the tune of £8m when his mate Tom drew up his severance terms.

Beansprout said:
Him personally?

Where was RBS when he started? Certainly not among the largest banks in the world.

Sure, he messed up big time but so did just about everyone.

Yes him personally. No one else has a bigger responsibility for the company's health and well-being than the CEO himself.

RDM · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:45

scorza said:
It got even more substantial to the tune of £8m when his mate Tom drew up his severance terms.

Regardless, he would still have had a substantial pension without it even if the bank had gone belly up.

cheets64 · 7 Apr 2009 at 18:35

RBS getting rid of 9000 jobs, some people will be after his head now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7987659.stm

Sankari · 7 Apr 2009 at 19:37

Fine. With the savings they've just made, they can start repaying the taxpayer.

Come on RBS, I want my money back.

matt_fsr · 8 Apr 2009 at 10:22

Anyone got an accurate figure for the cost of the RBS bailout so far? (with source)

Wouldn't be too hard to divide that by the number of taxpayers... come out with a figure for each person....

Oh and Beansprout - yes, him personally. The CEO of a company gets PAID to take responsibility for the good times and the bad. Everything he built up for RBS was lies, fraud and a scam pyramind get-rich-quick scheme - which seemed to benefit him and very few others.

Especially not the soon to be jobless 9,000 workers at RBS.