Sunday 1 March 2009

Bank On It

Harriet Harman’s grandstanding grows more ridiculous by the hour. Fred Goodwin is loaded and he couldn’t care less about “the court of public opinion”.

New Labour has done nothing about obscene levels of remuneration, and this man had signed a contract enforceable not in “the court of public opinion” but in a court of law. Where he would win, certainly on any appeal, and probably even before a jury. You can have your pension taken away, or drastically reduced, because some politician or newspaper editor thinks that you were rubbish at your job? Where would that end?

Never mind primary legislation directed at him by name! As much as anything else, can the Leader of the House of Commons think of no other use for the parliamentary time? I can. And I bet that you can, too.

I despise this man and everything that he represents. That everything is embodied, and it is very largely the fault of, the government of which Harriet Harman has been either a member or a loyal supporter continuously throughout its existence.
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  1. Anonymous1 March 2009 at 23:30

    The Court of Public Opinion probably believes in a day out roaming Spittalfields and lynching bankers outside over priced sandwich bars.
    But Hattie knows that there will be no legislation about Freds pension.
    Personally I believe that Fred will donate £100k annually to charity and there will be gin and tonics all round (as Private Eye would say).
    Fred will re-coup the £100k with an advance from a Publisher.

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  2. David Lindsay1 March 2009 at 23:34

    Oh, there's going to be no legislation. Someone should mention that fact if Harman ever does satnd for Leader. But they won't.

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  3. neil craig2 March 2009 at 18:40

    Disgraceful to see a Labour lawyer calling for the rule of law to be replaced by mob rule.

    Also unwise since it is unlikely a mob would treat her & the rest of the party kindly. They actually filled the job of running the country without bankrupting us all. They held that responsibiliy & government is much easier than running a bank since customers have little chance to leave. Even so they screwed up at least as much as Sir Fred.

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