It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy... ;-)

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I don't really approve of vandalism but in Fred the Shed's case I do hope the perpetrators get away with it.

Ordinarily I would not condone this type of behaviour...but in Fred's case I'll make an exception. The man has ruined the lives of thousands of people, and quite frankly a few broken windows in his house and his car is the least he deserves.

At least he still HAS a car and a house...

quatt, lol @ fred the shed. I remember clearly when that appeared in teh press. Most humorous

Now, I do get cross at statements along the lines of callisot's re 'it's all GB's fault, these bankers just did what they did because they could'.

Are there no professionals in teh banking industry? Do bankers have not a shred of pride in their jobs? Will they really just stumble on and on with stupid practices like hopeless alcoholics? Do they never consider the lives they touch, the lives they bolster?

apparently not, pointy.

If people like Sir Fred Goodwin or those spivs in the States were being held to account, then no-one would have to resort to vandalism, would they?

A lot of these "bankers" are anything but, the HBOS Head Honcho was an ex-Asda chief, had no banking experience whatsoever....

Hmmmm where are HBOS now???

Sorry, but the level of greed of these people is extraordinary, why should they get rewarded for failure (putting it mildly)?

OK, criminal damage and bullying of kids is wrong, but come on...some people are on th bones of their arses now because of their well-paid fuck ups

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Interesting point that the outrage is healthy, Danae. Someone else said blaming the regulators because the poor innocent bankers were allowed to do what they were doing is unreasonable, because we are all allowed to do various bad things, we don't have to. That choice is something for which you can be judged and be held to account.

I doubt very much Fred cares what ordinary people think of him, he can just piss off and live in a tax haven amongst other super-rich people with the same lack of morals.

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Gosh that's true about people not having 'moral decency to do the ethical thing, not merely the legally permissible thing.'

All these fucking LABOUR MPs merrily defrauding the taxpayer, but telling themselves that it's OK because it's technically permissible. Don't ask me why I expect better from Labour MPs these days, mind.

fgs, the man's a twunt, but to have his home vandalised??? Come on, that is not right. He has children and a family. This is completely unacceptable.

well never mind ladies - don't worry about poor Sir Fred. I hear he's got a fast track 6 month legup into the teaching profession. Phew!

he will specialise in teaching those interested in how to become rich off the backs of others then fuck off with all their cash and a big kiss from Gordon.

The only thing that will put this whole sordid affair right is if he were to show an ounce of decorum and hand back his pension.

Somehow, I don't think that's likely though. Do you? As for a waste of time and effort - well, that's for those responsible to decide. I would imagine that they feel that it was a very good use of their time.

Donnie

Madam, he doesn't have an office any more, he's retired. And since when did anyone in power in this country take a blind bit of notice of peaceful demonstrations?

They've made them all but impossible round our own bloody Parliament and in other locations you'll find the police do their best to prevent them, to the extent of not letting a bunch of OAPs get off the coach to have wee, and then tell great bit lies about how the poor ickle cops were injured by the horrid demonstrators - only when you do a Freedom of Information Act request, you find out those 'injuries' are bee stings and tripping over their own bloody shoelaces.

Madam death stare ( great name btw) - what can I say? I simply cannot muster any sypmathy for him at all. Please feel free to write him a polite letter but personally i feel hurling rotten eggs at him while he is in the stocks in a public place is far more fitting.

Someone decided that we should have a brick lobbed through our window just because we have a big house.
Really nice .
They chose my six year old DDs room.
It was horrible.

He is a prick and took bonuses while screwing the company into the ground. But there should be a legal way of dealing with it.

if only they still had stocks in village squares....imagine the queues...imagine the sale of eggs and tomatoes going through the roof....

I work in an investment bank (not as a banker). It does astound me the level of blind hatred for ANYONE working in the banking sector, and myself and DP have received some rather ridiculous comments. DP also works in an investment bank, but in no way shape or form as a banker, but still got lots of abuse from an old git in a pub.

Yes, there are some downright evil bankers with the ethics of an ally cat who are to blame. My job is a control function, stopping bankers from doing stupid and ridiculous things. It's not easy at times: bankers can be arrogant twunts, but then there are some lovely ones who do their job well, without acting in a super-risky way, who listen and do what you tell them to, and they're being tarred with the same brush. It doesn't help that for the last few years the FSA has done feck all and has generally been useless. For example, I was writing training for senior management, and was going down the "if you don't do what I tell you to, you may lose lots of money/your job/your reputation", using lots of example to drive the point home. But: I could find tons of examples of massive fines and cases from the SEC, but practically nothing from the FSA.

Agree - the FSA is one of the many guilty parties, but the OP was about Fred and his millions. Most appear to agree that he is one of these "downright evil bankers with the ethics of an ally cat who are to blame", and as such feel he probably got some of what he deserves.

This is beginning to piss me right off.

I work for RBS, we are currently being threatened by these twats next Wednesday with their 'burn a banker' protest.

The vast majority of RBS staff are hard working, decent people who don't get anything like the ridiculous bonuses, salaries or pensions that hit the headlines. It's us that are getting laid off with no pension or prospects while the bank tries to cut costs to pay the Government back as soon as possible.

However arseholes like Class War think they have the right to intimidate and threaten us because of where we work. From their website it looks like if I get into work that day I won't be able to get home or will have great difficulty doing so. So I have to go in not knowing if I'm going to be able to pick DD up from school on time. Yet if I take the day off, I don't get paid.

People like this make me

I'm with your fruitbeard.

The bank I work for has not: taken any government money, from anywhere but we're still being advised to dress down for the whole of next week, cancel meetings if not entirely necessary and possibly cancel business trips. I did snigger at the dressing down thing, because, TBH, some of the bankers would still be blatantly obvious even when dressed down (in their brogues, chinos, shirts, rolexes, slicked back hair and what not).

We were looking at a whole bunch of sub-prime mortgage applications and some of them were
Things like: unemployed 18 year ol given £300,000 mortgage that mother didn't know about (approved by outsourced agency), person claiming benefits but getting £3000 pm income from other sources, someone refusing to make payments through the bank cos he didn't want any record for the CSA to claim through ...

What I mean to say is: people are blaming the banks, the government, but there's also a lot of people (including myself) who needlessly took on a lot of debt that they shouldn't have.