Post by Patrick on Feb 26, 2009 17:59:11 GMT
With £650,000 a year?
Ex-Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin has rejected calls to give up his £650,000-a-year pension.
Chancellor Alistair Darling had asked him to hand back his £16m pension pot amid anger about rewards for failure.
But Sir Fred rejected that request in a letter to the Treasury in which he also suggests ministers agreed to the deal.
Mr Darling says that the government had thought the deal was legally binding when it was agreed in October, but now realised they could have blocked it.
There's a clip there of the boy Osborne Pontificating. Any financial finger wagging from the Tories is a joke - I wish he'd give up doing it. - After all - they were the ones who let the water companies get away with massive profits after privatisation whilst we now have to pay extra to modernise our crumbling water supply system because they were too busy paying massive bonuses to the directors back then.
No matter how bad Labour get - the Conservatives will never ever be in a position to criticise, and no - I'm not sticking up for them - to any newcomers - I am, and always will be a Political agnostic - Until such time as they prove they are decent human beings - You won't get me to believe in them.
I hope some forward thinking journalist will go and find a poverty stricken. elderly ex RBS employee and highlight and contrast their position with that of the Fat Cat on top.
Ex-Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin has rejected calls to give up his £650,000-a-year pension.
Chancellor Alistair Darling had asked him to hand back his £16m pension pot amid anger about rewards for failure.
But Sir Fred rejected that request in a letter to the Treasury in which he also suggests ministers agreed to the deal.
Mr Darling says that the government had thought the deal was legally binding when it was agreed in October, but now realised they could have blocked it.
There's a clip there of the boy Osborne Pontificating. Any financial finger wagging from the Tories is a joke - I wish he'd give up doing it. - After all - they were the ones who let the water companies get away with massive profits after privatisation whilst we now have to pay extra to modernise our crumbling water supply system because they were too busy paying massive bonuses to the directors back then.
No matter how bad Labour get - the Conservatives will never ever be in a position to criticise, and no - I'm not sticking up for them - to any newcomers - I am, and always will be a Political agnostic - Until such time as they prove they are decent human beings - You won't get me to believe in them.
I hope some forward thinking journalist will go and find a poverty stricken. elderly ex RBS employee and highlight and contrast their position with that of the Fat Cat on top.
;D
