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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-s...bonus-protest/
I predict Mr Bragg will not be a popular figure on the Holy Ground:greengrin
Leftie Do-gooder:grr:
I love him! :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
:agree: Civilisation as we know it will collapse if a penny less than £1.5b is paid out. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I'm with Billy Bragg...cap bonuses, pay me my dividends instead...:devil:
I thought you might:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Betty Boop
here, do you no just love being a proddy?
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Originally Posted by the-hibee
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Originally Posted by Betty Boop
:agree: Good on 'im! :agree:
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.
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Originally Posted by the-hibee
Who is there to protest to at Gogarburn? He'd just stand outside the main entrance and make a twat of himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by peterdouglas
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:
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Originally Posted by 65bd
...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!
Wouldn't know, sell it to me :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by the-hibee
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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It's an M&S Branch!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 65bd
[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.
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Originally Posted by the-hibee
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
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!
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.
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by Filled Rolls
The system of bonuses which rewarded exaggerated risk-taking was responsible for 'previous issues'. Thats been demonstrated ad infinitum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
Next!
RBS could pay out £25k to every employee and pay out about 4 times what they will next month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Betty Boop
Oor Billy's not thought this through properly.
Yep. He's got a lot of time to think about politics as he wanders around his estate in Devon. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday