RBS chief Stephen Hester's £963,000 bonus

[Jimbuna]

You've got to read it to believe it :nope:

Where's STEED? :DL


A £963,000 bonus in shares awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester has been strongly criticised.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said the payout represented a "disgraceful failure of leadership by the Prime Minister".
Lib Dem minister Jeremy Browne said Mr Hester should turn down the bonus.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16752358

[HunterICX]

Gotta love it :nope:
Nations are in debt and these stinkers are still walking out the door with a fat wallet.

HunterICX

[BossMark]

Cameron will do bugger all about it, after all its these gits who donate to the Tory party :down::down::down::down:

[Tribesman]

This is outrageous, how dare they only give him £900k of bonus shares, he did show a small profit after all.
As he got a bonus of £6million when he was posting a loss he should be getting an immense bonus this year from your tax payers, not a measly £900k.

[AVGWarhawk]

Well, I hope I make his Christmas list! :DL

[Tribesman]

Well, I hope I make his Christmas list!
You went to the wrong school and were not in the correct political club there to make the list.

[AVGWarhawk]

You went to the wrong school and were not in the correct political club there to make the list.

Well then...tut-tut. Bastage is making way too much money. :stare:

[Herr-Berbunch]

There was a discussion about this on Jeremy Vine's show on Radio 2, basically he's halved the staff to save money - can anyone else see the flaw in this?

His bonus alone could keep 50 people reasonably employed and paid.

Oh wait - it will: His driver, his cleaning staff, his groundsmen, his string of husseys? :03:

[jumpy]

ffs

All the noise, all the 'hard line on bankers' talk from electioneering politicians, it means FA. It really does.

I'm starting to warm to the idea that the only thing these ***** will listen to is a good old fashioned lynch mob, who drag one of these greedy bastards out of their office/limousine/mansion and string them up from the nearest lamp post before setting them on fire and dancing around their ashes until dawn.
Cold war firing squad is not bloody enough, we need to go middle east on their arses.

Oh well, better go and calm down, have a drink and forget about those iniquities that will never change.

[Egan]

ffs

All the noise, all the 'hard line on bankers' talk from electioneering politicians, it means FA. It really does.

I'm starting to warm to the idea that the only thing these ***** will listen to is a good old fashioned lynch mob, who drag one of these greedy bastards out of their office/limousine/mansion and string them up from the nearest lamp post before setting them on fire and dancing around their ashes until dawn.
Cold war firing squad is not bloody enough, we need to go middle east on their arses.

Oh well, better go and calm down, have a drink and forget about those iniquities that will never change.

Lol, that is almost, word for word, what I said to someone this afternoon.

Of course, RBS is owned by the country now so, as the majority shareholder, this has been OK'd by the government.

The same government that, amongst everything else, got rid of the Educational Living Allowance that allows kids from underprivileged backgrounds the financial means to complete high school...The same government that is happy to lynch those on benefits (because they're all basically lazy fraudsters apparently,) but will do absolutely nothing about the flagrant tax avoidance by rich individuals and corporations that costs the country far, far more than that wasted on benefit cheats.

There is a line from Withnail and I that always makes me think of the Tories: 'Free for those who can afford it. Very expensive for those who can't.'

[Jimbuna]

Money will always make money.

Sad but true.

[STEED]

The worst point of this whole thing is that RBS is now own by the government which owns +80% and yet Cameron & Clegg have not lifted a finger on this issue. Even if Ed Miliband was in power I don't believe even he would lift a finger.

[Jimbuna]

Your probably right :yep:

[Tribesman]

I was slightly confused when Boris objected to the bonus, after all its only chicken-feed in terms of income.....but then I remembered you have an election coming up over there for his job in London.

[STEED]

I was slightly confused when Boris objected to the bonus, after all its only chicken-feed in terms of income.....but then I remembered you have an election coming up over there for his job in London.

Red Ken is now in front of the polls, Boris is going down.

[STEED]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16772525

Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Philip Hampton has given up a £1.4m shares reward he was due next month, the BBC has learnt.

Some good news.

[BossMark]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16772525



Some good news.
Every time I see that david cameron it makes my skin crawl. I am sure that he his thatchers son

[Jimbuna]

Red Ken is now in front of the polls, Boris is going down.


I hope Ken wins, I've met him and he is actually quite an interesting individual.

[soopaman2]

Your Euro bankers may be corrupt, but you got nothing on American bankers.

We got this thing called lobbying and super PACs that is a "legal way" for our bankers to bribe our politicians. So they can crumble the economy, and still take home 7 figure ( in dollars) bonuses. Not salary.. Bonuses, for breaking the world economy... Uhhhh.

You Euros may be first in many things, but we kick your posteriors in ingrown (yeah, like a toenail that needs to be cut out, to prevent from infecting your foot) government/banker collusion.:D

Cut out the disease, the body will heal...You all see the disease right?

[BossMark]

I hope Ken wins, I've met him and he is actually quite an interesting individual.
Yes hopefully on the 3rd May 2012 Ken will be elected

[mookiemookie]

Your Euro bankers may be corrupt, but you got nothing on American bankers.

We got this thing called lobbying and super PACs that is a "legal way" for our bankers to bribe our politicians. So they can crumble the economy, and still take home 7 figure ( in dollars) bonuses. Not salary.. Bonuses, for breaking the world economy... Uhhhh.

You Euros may be first in many things, but we kick your posteriors in ingrown (yeah, like a toenail that needs to be cut out, to prevent from infecting your foot) government/banker collusion.:D

Cut out the disease, the body will heal...You all see the disease right?

http://i.imgur.com/IqZ58.png

[soopaman2]

You forgot the
"on the taxpayer dime" part:DL

[Jimbuna]

Thankfully common decency has prevailed at long last and he has decided to waive the bonus.

[gimpy117]

I'm surprised were all shocked at this; It's evident that anyone who's connected to the banking industry at a high level stopped working for the common good, or working under any sense of right and wrong long ago.

it's all line your pockets and find the first available golden parachute while all the rabble brace for impact.

[STEED]

I see the Labour Party is dicking around again, some say about time others say he has every right to keep the bonus. So what about next years £8 million one heading his way so the news has said?

[Jimbuna]

I hope he mentions me in his will :DL