Yes sir, these were the right decisions
Should RBS chief executive Stephen Hester have bowed to intense public and political opposition and agreed to refuse the £1 million bonus?
Of course he should.
Whether he handed the money back because he feared becoming a pariah or he just felt it was the decent thing to do, doesn’t really matter.
The fact is he’s done it.
Let us not forget this man was brought in to turn the Royal Bank of Scotland from massive loss-making business into a profitable one.
He should be rewarded for success when he has achieved that success, but not before.
And don’t feel too sorry for him; Hester is still earning a £1.2million salary each year.
And should RBS boss Fred Goodwin have been stripped of his knighthood for bringing the honours system into disrepute?
Absolutely!
Four years after the biggest banking disaster in British history, all he’s lost is his knighthood. He’s lucky h kept his head!
RBS played a major role in the financial crisis of 2008-09. Fred Goodwin made the wrong decision that helped bring down RBS.
He is still walking away with a massive pension, which in my books is a disgrace.
He didn’t commit a serious crime, but he helped towards the downfall of this country.
Still on the subject of wasting public money, how come the Government is spending £27 million on fireworks and the like for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games? It’s madness.
Also, we spent more than £1m on the Steven Lawrence murder trial and two men were found guilty and sent to prison. Now I hear those murderers are appealing against the sentence and using more legal aid to do it. It makes you want to weep.
Another waste of public money is the £1 billion aid package we give to India, a country steeped in millionaires.
And how did they repay us? They snubbed the UK and gave France a £13billion jet contract. Well, that’s gratitude!
Last week, former Education Minister David Lammy called for a return to Victorian laws on discipline, saying working-class parents need to be able to use corporal punishment to deter unruly children from joining gangs and wielding knives.
Now Boris Johnson has jumped on the band-wagon demanding that parents should be allowed to smack their children to instil discipline.
Hold on, smacking is not illegal. No one is saying you should never smack your child.
I listened to that awful woman, Edwina Currie, on Five Live this week telling the presenter: “I smacked my children with a hairbrush. Our job is to lead by example”.
I seem to remember, Edwina, you announcing in your autobiography that you’d had an affair with John Major. Is that leading by example?
Last summer’s riots were not caused because parents hadn’t smacked their children. They were caused by gangs of unemployed kids who saw an opportunity to go on a stealing frenzy.
Hopefully, all the heavy prison sentences might just deter people in the future. But I’m not holding my breath.
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