Billy Bragg - NoBonus4RBS

[anonymous-user]

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[AndrewW-G]

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[Mark34bn]

If every RBS customer went to their branch and withdrew their money / closed their account in protest then something may be done. But they won't, and it won't.
Random people not paying their tax will end up in court. Apathy rules in the UK unfortunately.

[Don]

Hey Billy Bragg in going to jail shocker.

Nice.

[Mclovin]

come on, this is a company that should have gone to the wall with depositors protected by the guarantee scheme and shareholders losing the shirts off their backs like any other failed company....instead they bail it out and everyone gets a pay day for failure, its government corruption we have never seen before in this country and there is nothing we can do about it....

[deevlash]

This guys a plank, if he withdraws his taxes I hope he wont get treated by the NHS. Why does he want a bank owned by us the tax payer to lose all of its best earners and go bust? How will that help them to pay back the fkload of cash they owe us?! Obviously he's probably a commie so wont like globalisation but thats tough, its happened so we have to deal with it.

[Magog]

Looks like this could send the country into a tail spin!




edited for poor formatting, cheers deevlash

Edited by Magog on Tuesday 19th January 19:46

[deevlash]

Magog said:

Looks like this could send the country into a tail spin!

fixed the link
"economists Madely-Finnegan"

Edited by deevlash on Tuesday 19th January 19:34

[groucho]

anonymous said:

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It's his beloved Labour that did it.

[eldar]

groucho said:

anonymous said:

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It's his beloved Labour that did it.

No it wasn't, its all Gladstone's fault. Or Thatcher. Certainly not Winky.

[grumbledoak]

Mclovin said:

come on, this is a company that should have gone to the wall with depositors protected by the guarantee scheme and shareholders losing the shirts off their backs like any other failed company....instead they bail it out and everyone gets a pay day for failure, its government corruption we have never seen before in this country and there is nothing we can do about it....

But, when did you start talking sense?

ETA- Winky.

Edited by grumbledoak on Tuesday 19th January 20:38

[odyssey2200]

while I have my own feelings towards these bankers getting Millions for fking up, Bragg has no credibility IMHO.

He is a Champagne Socialist of the worst sort.

He took a pop at Thatcher and the Tory party at every opportunity and now his beloved Labout have fked up we whines about it

[Spiritual_Beggar]

odyssey2200 said:

while I have my own feelings towards these bankers getting Millions for fking up, Bragg has no credibility IMHO.

He is a Champagne Socialist of the worst sort.

He took a pop at Thatcher and the Tory party at every opportunity and now his beloved Labout have fked up we whines about it

True...

But...doesn't mean he isn't right.

I for one, admire what he is trying to do. I'd like to think enough people would be willing to join him so as to actually make a statement.

If I thought enough people would do the same...I may even join him (not that I actually could though, being on PAYE). At least, I'd like to think I have the balls to join him.


'Strength in numbers' and all that

[130R]

I don't like where most of my tax money goes but I still have to pay it. If everyone started "withholding" their tax because it was being spent on something they didn't agree with then there would be anarchy.

[deevlash]

130R said:

I don't like where most of my tax money goes but I still have to pay it. If everyone started "withholding" their tax because it was being spent on something they didn't agree with then there would be anarchy.

precisely, I dont think junkies should get anything, can I with hold my tax?

[AndrewW-G]

Some of the comments on the face book page are great, including this one

"Every penny Billy has earned, and that of footballers, has been earned in the market"

So I guess all the traders who are having a reduced bonus pool this year didnt earn it in the market

[fido]

AndrewW-G said:

Billy has earned, and that of footballers, has been earned in the market"

So I guess all the traders who are having a reduced bonus pool this year didnt earn it in the market

Yeah, but it's real innit, cos my tiny brain can understandz how someone is worth £100k a week for kicking an inflated bladder around - or making dreary political songs that have like real meaning and stuff - not like Girls Aloud.

I reckon Banks and Hedge Funds should start selling t-shirts and stuff, preferably with monosyllabic logos in large letters, so that we can get chavs to support their favourite investment bank. Obviously, RBS fans are gonna get a kicking at every opportunity.

[Zod]

What most people don't get is that RBS is trying to build a proper investment bank to compete with the big Americans, just as Barclays is doing. To do that, it has to pay the same as the big Americans. That' however, does not justify paying similar amounts to the employees who've been there since before the crash. Some of those, however, may justify the amounts if they have demonstrated similar profitability in their own fields to contemporaries at the major American banks.

If you want to stop RBS paying bonuses altogether, you have to understand that to do so will keep it out of invesmtent banking. That cuts risk, but also cuts profitability.

[DSM2]

AndrewW-G said:

Some of the comments on the face book page are great, including this one



So I guess all the traders who are having a reduced bonus pool this year didnt earn it in the market

Well, as we all now know, they 'earned' nothing, did they? It was all fools gold.

[s3fella]

Mclovin said:

come on, this is a SCOTTISH company that should have gone to the wall with depositors protected by the guarantee scheme and shareholders losing the shirts off their backs like any other failed company....instead they bail it out and everyone gets a pay day for failure, it's SCOTTISH PM corruption we have never seen before in this country and there is nothing we can do about it....

EFA