Billy Bragg and RBS

[Betty Boop]

Billy Bragg was at RBS headquarters today protesting about their intention to pay 1.5 billion in bonuses next month. He intends to withhold his tax payment unless the government caps the bonuses at £25,000. Nothing seems to have changed re the excessive bonus culture it seems, what a disgrace.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/157236-singer-bragg-in-bank-bonus-protest/

[hibsbollah]

I predict Mr Bragg will not be a popular figure on the Holy Ground:greengrin

Leftie Do-gooder:grr:

[Betty Boop]

I predict Mr Bragg will not be a popular figure on the Holy Ground:greengrin

Leftie Do-gooder:grr:

I love him! :greengrin

[lapsedhibee]

I predict Mr Bragg will not be a popular figure on the Holy Ground:greengrin

:agree: Civilisation as we know it will collapse if a penny less than £1.5b is paid out. :greengrin

[Toaods]

I'm with Billy Bragg...cap bonuses, pay me my dividends instead...:devil:

[hibsbollah]

I love him! :greengrin

I thought you might:greengrin

[the-hibee]

here, do you no just love being a proddy?

[Betty Boop]

here, do you no just love being a proddy?

:confused:

[Bookkeeper]

Billy Bragg was at RBS headquarters today protesting about their intention to pay 1.5 billion in bonuses next month. He intends to withhold his tax payment unless the government caps the bonuses at £25,000. Nothing seems to have changed re the excessive bonus culture it seems, what a disgrace.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/157236-singer-bragg-in-bank-bonus-protest/ (http://news.stv.tv/scotland/157236-singer-bragg-in-bank-bonus-protest/)


:agree: Good on 'im! :agree:

[Pete]

Why didn't he go to the present HQ at Gogarburn? St. Andrews Square is just a branch.

...and for gods sake don't try withholding your tax. I've tried it and they don't like it...they will simply take you to court and might even take away your house.

[Hainan Hibs]

here, do you no just love being a proddy?

:faf:

[Removed]

Why didn't he go to the present HQ at Gogarburn? St. Andrews Square is just a branch.

Who is there to protest to at Gogarburn? He'd just stand outside the main entrance and make a twat of himself.

So he does it in the middle of the city where at least the general public would see him and it generates some publicity.

And in the RBS world 36 St Andrew Square is not '.........just a branch' :wink:

[Pete]

Who is there to protest to at Gogarburn? He'd just stand outside the main entrance and make a twat of himself.

So he does it in the middle of the city where at least the general public would see him and it generates some publicity.

And in the RBS world 36 St Andrew Square is not '.........just a branch' :wink:

I suppose.

...and you're right about St andrews square being "not just a branch"...it's more of a social scene.
You wade through about five "greeters" to get to the twenty deep queue of customers for the two tellers. Behind them there are scores of people hanging about desks flirting with each other and doing not very much work.

The teller then has the nerve to ask me if the service is OK!

[Mibbes Aye]

here, do you no just love being a proddy?

Wouldn't know, sell it to me :greengrin

[Phil D. Rolls]

I'd happily shoot this loony lefty who want's us back 2 the crazee:greengrin dayz of the 80s, when good queen mag-gie was n chrge!!!

I'd get a good nite's sleep as well!! LOL!! I'd put 1 of his rec-ords on!!!!! :greengrin

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And in the RBS world 36 St Andrew Square is not '.........just a branch' :wink:

It's an M&S Branch!!

[ballengeich]

[QUOTE=Filled Rolls;2353324]I'd happily shoot this loony lefty who want's us back 2 the crazee:greengrin dayz of the 80s, when good queen mag-gie was n chrge!!!

I'd get a good nite's sleep as well!! LOL!! I'd put 1 of his rec-ords on!!!!! :greengrin

Absolutely right until the last sentence. If he's locked up and kept away from implements which (in talented hands) could be used to create music, the world will be a more harmonic place.

What's the counter-revolutionary deviant on about wanting to restrict bonuses to £25,000? The limit should be £24,362.

[hibsdaft]

here, do you no just love being a proddy?

:rotflmao:

[s.a.m]

Completely irrelevant, but dunkey's years ago, I was in a record shop in Glasgow and ready to hand over eight notes and 99 pence for one of Billy's records, when the young man at the till said, "I'm afraid I cannot accept that. It says on the cover there that you should not pay more than £4.99 for this tape." [as indeed it did] So that's all I paid. And I love both Billy and the shop assistant for this to this day. So there.

[Andy74]

I'm not really getting his point.

Does he want RBS to be non competitive to the point of not being able to repay the taxpayer??

He's another with little understanding of what he is actually complaining about.

[Phil D. Rolls]

I'm not really getting his point.

Does he want RBS to be non competitive to the point of not being able to repay the taxpayer??

He's another with little understanding of what he is actually complaining about.

I think it's the banks who don't really understand who is calling the shots, myself. Or maybe it's me who doesn't understand.

I can't see how the banks can argue for going on as before when their MO resulted in disaster.

Walls+guns. That's the only language these crooks get!

[heretoday]

You have to admire BB's pluck. He's a rock star right enough but he has been consistent with his left wing beliefs.

However, I think his criticism would be better directed at the government who allowed the city, banks et al to run riot these last few years.

[McIntosh]

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[Andy74]

I think it's the banks who don't really understand who is calling the shots, myself. Or maybe it's me who doesn't understand.

I can't see how the banks can argue for going on as before when their MO resulted in disaster.

Walls+guns. That's the only language these crooks get!

What do you mean by going on as before? Do you know who would be getting bonuses and for what? Do you know who was responsible for previous issues and where they are now?

[hibsbollah]

What do you mean by going on as before? Do you know who would be getting bonuses and for what? Do you know who was responsible for previous issues and where they are now?

The system of bonuses which rewarded exaggerated risk-taking was responsible for 'previous issues'. Thats been demonstrated ad infinitum.

[lapsedhibee]

What do you mean by going on as before? Do you know who would be getting bonuses and for what? Do you know who was responsible for previous issues and where they are now?

Hornby (HBoS) is chief executive of Alliance Boots with a salary of £500,000 and - wait for it - a bonus of 125% of his salary. So he's certainly paid the price for incompetence.

Next!

[Beefster]

Billy Bragg was at RBS headquarters today protesting about their intention to pay 1.5 billion in bonuses next month. He intends to withhold his tax payment unless the government caps the bonuses at £25,000. Nothing seems to have changed re the excessive bonus culture it seems, what a disgrace.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/157236-singer-bragg-in-bank-bonus-protest/

RBS could pay out £25k to every employee and pay out about 4 times what they will next month.

Oor Billy's not thought this through properly.

[steakbake]

You have to admire BB's pluck. He's a rock star right enough but he has been consistent with his left wing beliefs.

However, I think his criticism would be better directed at the government who allowed the city, banks et al to run riot these last few years.

Yep. He's got a lot of time to think about politics as he wanders around his estate in Devon. :wink: