fred stripped of his knighthood

fred stripped of his knighthood

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petemurphy

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10,143 posts

185 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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shocked by this - will everyone who has made bad business decisions be stripped now? politics of envy this week


Seight_Returns

1,640 posts

203 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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But Archer keeps his peerage.

Ridiculous.

0a

23,907 posts

196 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Agreed, the second jealous lynching in the last few days. From now on why don't we just string up any semi-public figure who has fallen out of favour or is associated with a cause we don't like. Embarrassing reaction to cover up for Hester?

Happy82

15,078 posts

171 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Is it really that big a thing though? A Knighthood isn't what it once was, every z-list celebrity and their friend has one now.

MX7

7,902 posts

176 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Hopefully honours will be given a bit more consideration in future. They seem to be handed out far too liberally.

petemurphy

Original Poster:

10,143 posts

185 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Happy82 said:
Is it really that big a thing though? A Knighthood isn't what it once was, every z-list celebrity and their friend has one now.
i wouldnt say no to one! wonder if he can take legal action or tough st if queenie says no then thats it

0a

23,907 posts

196 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Happy82 said:
Is it really that big a thing though? A Knighthood isn't what it once was, every z-list celebrity and their friend has one now.
They should be, their removal is as important as their reward. On such a basis I'd agree with you - it seems they are purely political.

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

169 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Good, he's a and an arrogant as well.

Little bro works for RBS. The staff were telling the board something wasn't adding up prior to it all going wrong. He wouldn't listen and essentially finished peoples careers that questioned him.

While not totally responsible, he has had a big hand in the financial mess GB PLC is in.

It's all very well playing the jealousy card, but people like him are happy to take the huge rewards and seem to be able to side step any fall out if things go wrong. People have lost jobs, houses and have had big holes put in their pensions as a direct and indirect result of his actions. He should have his pension taken off him too, that might make other captains of industry think a little more carefully about how they run businesses.

Blackpuddin

16,723 posts

207 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Well done Liz. Now let's do the same to that unctuous fantasist and liar Archer, as suggested earlier.

Northern Munkee

5,354 posts

202 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Indeed Milliband pandering to the cheap seats, obviously the focus group see it as a vote winner.




Andy Zarse

10,868 posts

249 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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This will only reinforce his siege mentality. The best thing would be to ignore him, cold shoulder at the golf club, that kind of thing.

When they start stripping titles from the thieves in the House of Lords (H/T Lord Taylor) I will be more impressed.

Steffan

10,362 posts

230 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Good.

Of all the dreadful and appalling decisions made by New Labour en masse when the reality of the mishandling of the UK economy and the Banking sector became apparent in the 2007++ period the agreement of a huge pension for Fred Goodwin and a Knighthood was the worst example.

IMO directors and senior figures in this Bank should have been prosecuted for corporate fraud.

It is to the everlasting shame of the slitherers of New Labour that they were not pursued.

Zod

35,295 posts

260 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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I'm not entirely comfortable with his being stripped of it, but he should certainly never have been awarded it. Then again, given the utter lack of any public remorse for his cock-ups, I'm not going to lose sleep over his loss of the title.

turbobloke

104,657 posts

262 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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So, Al Gore and that joke of a Nobel Prize are bound to be next in line for stripping.

stichill99

1,058 posts

183 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Funny that when RBS kept anouncing record profits prior to the bust you didnt hear the shareholders saying Calm down Fred lets get back to traditional lending and give us a smaller dividend. Shareholders were as greedy as the bosses when the money was rolling in. The first time as a young lad when I bought shares the bank manager told me Shares can come down just as easily as they can go up.

lazystudent

1,789 posts

163 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Kneejerk politics. Next.

K12beano

20,854 posts

277 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Sank A Bank?


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AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

219 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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As well as Archer, could we do the same for all the thieves who were caught fiddling their House of Lords expenses?

Pesty

42,655 posts

258 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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He gets a £650k Pension for life.

No doubt he has property all over the place and a huge portfollio of investments and cash coming out of his arse.

I think he also went into another job with no doubt a huge sallary.


Not one fk was given by him today.

In fact e can now probably get some sympathy and people will now start to leave him alone.

E31Shrew

5,925 posts

194 months

Tuesday 31st January 2012
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Still , ex Sir Fred still gets £600k a year pension