Fred Slopes Off
Unconfirmed rumour that SIR Jackie Stewart is sheltering MR Fred Goodwin in Switzerland—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) February 01, 2012
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
Sir Jackie Stewart – sponsored by RBS. STILL!
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2011/3/2/1299096708171/Sir-Jackie-Stewart-007.jpg
It is a disgrace that RBS are still sponsoring millionaires like Andy Murray.
The guy should stand on his own feet, and not accept state handouts.
I think you will find that before the brown stuff hit the fan Defence Secretary and millionaire Phil Hammond was enjoying a freebie at Wimbledon courtesy of RBS.
Do you think in retrospect he will have paid for his ticket?
We need Fred to stay in the UK so his pension can be taxed at 50%.
All Western Banks are in the Sh-t as Western Governments carry on regardless with their winless WARS. Fred the Shred trousered 12 million to keep his mouth shut.
1. Who put the interest rate up on inflation of higher fuel TAX?
2. Who went to WAR which raised Oil Prices as the government siphoned off the TAX TAKE. Stealing 26 billions out of the economy pushing people into bankruptcy TO MUCH TAX LEAVES LESS IN THE ECONOMY. GET IT.
Actually, and I’m not one to praise Chippy O’Dunblane, but when the RBS shit hit the fan AM did substantially reduce/stop his sponsorship whereas Jackie McMoney-Grubbing Stewart said he would not be doing anything to reduce his £1m+ per annum payment from RBS as a goodwill ambassador. No wonder he’s defending Mr Goodwin, Jackie has been bought and paid for many times over.
With quim in the title of the link is it safe to open at work (or can I enjoy when I get home)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quim_(footballer_born_1975)
Did I win?
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Cloud cuckoo land
MR Shred is in Switzerland with his mate.
He’ll be enjoying living in the Faslane…
I’m so glad no one can blame me. Get on wiv it bruv you is playin’ a blinder. Mum is so proud.
Indeed. World class public services, hard currency, high wages, civilised people, fresh air, excellent trains, 20% income tax. You can see the attractions, whether you’re a banker, race car driver or teacher.
All built on a giant tax evasion and money laundering operation.
Like London?
Very similar to London. Every household in Switzerland owns a gun. Just like most of London.
Oh no! I banned guns!
It’s just one of the many very wonderful things I did.
I also banned knives!
Aren’t I just the very best?!
Saw Sir Jackie on SKY earlier.
If there was ever a case of keeping your friends close, and having nothing whatever to do with the media at a time like this, he rather proved it.
Another tax exile ?
gbrown is laughing all the way to the bank.
he gives 40billion of our money away to his mate and we all blame the receiver.
Yeah, lets strip Brown of his knighthood! Oh, he hasn’t got one.
I bet whoever bought our gold cheap (from Bruin) is a happy bunny.
India
The politicians and the uncivil service are spinning like tops over the “dethronement” / fed to the mob, of mr goody the idiot who thought he was the greatest ceo and believer in politicians, no sympathy he got what he deserved, he made stupid mistakes and was used by the same politicians, still his pension will take the pressure off.
Another Scottish tax exile?
Shhhh dont mention the English tax exiles
You forgot the comedy spelling ‘inglish’ that you generally use to demonstrate your PC credentials.
Come Independence Day the wealthy Jocks are eyeing up the tax haven bolt holes.
My first choice would be to live in Scotland.
My second choice would be to live in Switzerland.
My 223rd choice would be to live in Burkhino Faso
My 224th choice would be to live in England.
Which just goes to show how irrational nationlism makes you.
WACIST!
That’s it. I am now on the moral high ground and can tell you what you are allowed to say and think. Disagreeing makes you an instant fascist.
Hey, this is easy! I can see why pitiful lefties, and other sad sacks of flesh barely competent to live without perpetual assistance, have exploited this little trick with such aplomb.
All I want is my freedom from you English!
you are free to do many things. live many places. however, there will always be a government in charge doing things you are not particularly keen on.
Did you feel free-er when there were more scottish people in charge of the UK government?
What is the single biggest thing that oppresses you? When the English don’t let you smoke in pubs or something like that perhaps.
RACIST!!!
‘Braveheart’ is not a documentary.
Where do you live at the moment?
Rob Roy’s comments here are like watching Antiques Roadshow, they make me cry so, boo hoo…sob
And will the headliners in the Mirror and Grauniad be: “Labour placeman stripped of Brown-given honour?” Doubtful.
I’m OK!
Is it ‘cos u is blick ?
Which one did the BBC use today?
A Union leaders are concerned about jobs as Hinchenbrook Hospital is privatised today and they fear that this is just the start of the privatisation of the whole of the NHS
B Loss making hospital is taken over by a private company whom aim to improve standards of care whilst making a profit
NHS Unions? Run for the benefit of their memb…leaders and not the patients.
It’s time for Westminster to become an English Parliament. Give Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland their independence.
This would leave he Tories with a 63 seat majority (even before any boundary changes)
Then all the sh*ts who want to be “serve” the public will just come out of the drains of Liebour and the Libsh*tes and will just join the uconned us and carry on as before, lieing, cheating, stealing , corrupt practices will be even more than the norm we have now, so no change.
And make London a UN protectorate.
Can I e mail you please.
I love Dave’s Coalition, they strike a progressive chord that resonates within the LGBT communities, across the entire country.
Fred who?
I deserve a Knighthood after all I did for the country!
Is this correct ? BAE Systems has lost a 7 billion pound contract to build and supply Euro fighters for India , To the French who are going to supply the same euro fighters but cheaper ?
So that’s what they spend our over seas aid on !
Bribing the wrong people ?.
Can you give a verifiable public source for this please
Dont worry the French will be making a rather large loss on the deal….
Untrue.
They get to maintain & grow their 5th generation fighter technology & manufacturing process, whilst we shove world class British engineers onto the dole.
And to think that the enginmeers who Cameron is about to make redundant actually piad taxes that were given away to India via the corrupt & insulting edifice that is DFID.
Another Cameron victory. Wanker.
American style keynsianism.
BTW: the rafale isn’t 5th generation.
Sorry i miss heared the planes are not the same ones but the source was sky news and i think this is what they are talking about
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/8857516/RAF-Typhoon-leads-the-race-to-secure-7-billion-arms-deal.html
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No wonder Sarkozy said Britain has no industry”he must have known something
My telly presenter (on CNN) just said the Injuns were thinking of buying the Rafael from Dassault. That I think is not the same plane as the Eurofighter, but I may be wrong.
Could well be a blessing in disguise. Doing business in India can be dodgy, chances are this will end up as a bad debt.
O mighty sir and sahib you most certainly can be trusting us
but but but but but but ….no lie ?
No. The French withdrew some years ago from the Eurofighter project in favour of their own (cheaper) Dassault Rafale aircraft which won the Indian order.
Is that true , they withdrew ? so they convince everybody to pump billions in toproduce a plane and then pull out ffs ?
i thought the idea of a Euro fighter was that Europe would be using it just another example of the French picking the bits of the EU that benifit them
This on the same subject
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dassault-Rafale-wins-MMRCA-deal-beating-Eurofighter-Typhoon/articleshow/11700801.cms
Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!! – gotcha again rosbiffs – and who ditched their aircraft carrier and then asked us to help?
That fucking Aircraft carrier doesn’t even have a nuclear propeller.
It’s fucking useless. All it is good for is cruising around the Med.
One good thing about the Euro crisis is that they can’t sell it off to the Greeks or Italians now!
Cameron says he is mothballing the ship.
Unlike me it will never get dipped in the sea .
Well anyway, bye bye Sarko, you are history mon ami. I predict a jail term in about 8 years.
Looks like we lose a similar deal just before Christmas
so have we have been persuaded to build an aircraft by europe that nobody wants ?while the French build their own to compete against it
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/8967552/Japan-picks-Lockheeds-F-35-in-7bn-fighter-deal.html
I don’t believe it was the “EU”. things like the tornado and jaguar were made by countries negotiating deals for their own purposes, a hell of a long time ago.
Trouble is, that this project started in the early 80s when they wanted a fighter jet to fight against russians trying to invade etc.
The rafale is different. looks a bit similar from some angles.
The rafale is smaller, lighter, cheaper, and older (hence more tested).
Its more of a ground attack aircraft too.
Another thing is it looks a bit like a mirage too from some angles, and it’ll have some things in common with a mirage, something the indian pilots might like, and more especially the ground crews.
Of course, the reason why the eurofighter and the rafale are both similar-ish is because various countries were going to make a fighter they had in mind as a joint project. But the french didnt like not being in control so they buggered off and did their own thing.
Which is exactly what we should do to some of their hair brained schemes
but no we as always follow everything to the bloody letter
we must be the laughing stock of eurpoe
I will tell you something it is a noisy little fucker when it’s flying over you.
Why is Guido feeling sorry for a wretched crook who fucked over a bank and was knighted for his efforts by Gordon Brown?
Because Fred did as Gordon told him? And Fred is carrying the can, whilst Gordon doesn’t even bother to turn up for work, most days.
Who was Chancellor in 2008 when RSB fell? : Alistair Darling, appointed by Brown in 2007. Also on his watch Northern Rock borrowed up to £20 billion from the Bank of England.
The FSA is appointed by the Tre a sury and has an office in Canary Wharf and another office in Edinburgh
Hopefully no one now dare nominate Gordon Brown for a knighthood.
Interestingly someone just pointed the finger at Brown’s regulatory failure on 5 Live. Helpfully though the BBC presenter put him right, telling the caller that it went back all the way to THATCHER!
Bingo
Think we should nominate Brown, get him down on one knee, Her Maj can sneeze and with the flick of her wrist nip his head off. ‘ One’s so sorry…there’s been a terrible accident….
I prefer a different type of accident for Gordon. One where he falls down 17 flights of concrete steps (in six different buildings), accidentally pulls out all his fingernails and teeth, carelessly permits a rottweiler to chew off his own genitals and then – gosh, how careless! – he falls through ice on a frozen lake and drowns, after shooting himself in both knees.
It’s a very special kind of upper-class chav fungus, – only LieBore wimmin get it, – we can’t understand why.
there’s been a terrible accident….
accident maybe, but hardly terrible
I switched the radio off after that remark and took another ramipril tab
Those chaps who sold of the gold at rock bottom prices what happened to them
Brown and balls if i remember rightly.- what have they been stripped of?
Meanwhile Bliar skips off as “Middle East Envoy”. Good work for a bloke who started wars there.
I thought SIR Jackie made a very good defence of MR Goodwin on ‘Today’ this morning. I hope that I would be as loyal to a mate in trouble as Jackie Stewart is being.
The santimonious clap-trap and crowing may make everyone – the government, the Labour Party (who gave him the gong), the FSA (who watched the débacle happen), journalists, banking rivals, us – feel ever so lily-white and righteous, but the action taken against Fred is pointlessly ridiculous, hypocritical and vindictive. It sets an uncomfortable precedent. Yes, he fucked up, but so did many other people, as Guido points out down there about the various criminal ‘Lords’.
I recall that it’s a lot harder to strip someone of a peerage than a knighthood. They were unable to de-Lordify Harold Wilson’s chum, Joseph ‘Gannex’ Kagan, when he went to chokey for tax evasion in 1980. He lost the knighhood, but hung on to the barony.
In 1756 Admiral Byng was found guilty of “not having done his utmost” to engage the French fleet off Minorca. His inaction was partly attributable to the fleet being in a bad state of repair, becuase of budget restraints. Despite pleas by the court martial for the King to extend leniency by royal prerogative, he was executed by firing-squad. This was satirised by Voltaire in ‘Candide’: “Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres” (In this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others).
What an uncanny parallel. The government at least partly culpable for the catastrophe, but it’s one man who has to carry the can as a scapegoat for their incompetence. At least Mr Goodwin’s still alive.
Uddin has the same honour as Baroness Thatcher, go figure….
It was also breath-taking to hear Alistair Darling in support of Goodwin accuse Cameron of being blow along on the wind (of public opinion on this and bonuses), not able to respond to the point that his own leader had called for the nighthood to be revoked.
So Labour it seems are perfecting their bandwagonning skills. Not only can they jump on a bandwagon, but they now have the ability to perform stunt banwagonning – jumping on two bandwagons at the same time, travelling in opposite directions
So what’s new?
I heard he was hanging out with Elvis and Martin Bormann in Bigfoot’s UFO
Of course as taxpayers shelling out £600K a year for life, lets all hope he is not alive for much longer
Is there a 50% widow’s pension?
On his pension, why on earth would he want to come back to the UK. I know I wouldn’t.
Goodwin’s knighthood was recommended by Brown for helping to end boom and bust, through Goodwins superb banking skills. Therefore when will Miliband condem Brown’s actions?
When the banks went bust, how many of the top bosses had any banking qualifications, and on what basis were they given the job.
Where was Miliband’s voice when Brown was PM. What stopped him speaking up then?
Oh stop it youl ruin everything and we’re having so much fun
Who is Gordon Brown?
Comment 10:26 moderated. Guido you are a fuckwit tosser.
It’s automod, dear! Calm down!
You must stop Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeking. Geddit?
Unconfirmed report that Eric Pickles is sheltering the lost tribe of Israel, 2 northern towns and a full scale model of the Olympic stadium in his shadow.
Oh is he, what laughs, opps, I mean, Cor blimey gov.
We have smashed up one house of his in Scotland and a car.
he bought another big house and then his wife kicked him out.
I had thought you English were sheltering him but now it looks like it is those Swiss and they are precisely the people in Europe your PM wants us to emulate!
No-one seems very interested in interviewing the MP for Kirkaldy about Fred Goodwin. Or his little helpers Ed Balls and Ed Miliband. It very unusual in a big story like this that no-one has doorstepped them or, indeed, shown any interest in hearing their views.
Has Salmond had anything to say about it or is he about to make him the SNP Banking Tzar ?
Yes, Salmond was pursued by cameras yesterday and gave his opinion. Unlike Brown, Balls and Miliband, he hasn’t got his head buried in the sand and he’s not a coward.
More accurately, Slimy Salmond gave an opinion. He always gives the opinion he thinks will benefit him rather than what he believes.
Possibly. But on the other hand you might be getting him mixed up with Milibandwagon.
Salmond’s a bully, most bullies are cowards..God help Scotland.
Most Bullys are cowards?
Have you read my book on courage?
I read your book, ‘Beyond the Crash’, but didn’t like the ending.
Only Sky News has but the boot into the lefty shirt lifters that fucked our economy, over at the BBC Nick Robinson is licking the contents of the latest condom Balls used on Yvette clean.
A lovely thought. Toenails is sounding more and more left out these days. He tries to sound intelligent but fails dismally.
A £340k pension won’t get you far in Switzerland when a plate of chips costs you £15.
WACISSSTT.
Just because he’s Scottish you assume he wants to buy chips instead of a ceasar salad.
Jackie stewart actually phoned up radio 4 this morning. He stated that he was unable to phone Fred.
err. actually he didn’t come to think of it, he stated that Sir Fred’s phone was off.
According to radio 5′s brain of Britain Rachel Burden the banking collapse was the fault of Maggie Thatcher and not Gordon Brown.
And there was me thinking we’d had the one eyed mong in charge of our economy for 13 years.
Thank god for the reporting neutrality of the BBC, what would we do without them?
This was the lie they put out on Day One. I’m convinced there is a big story in there for anybody who could be bothered to research and ask the right questions.
The day LadyDi died they were caught flat-foote playing sombre music like the Soviets used to for half the day while they cobbled together a ten-minute news item. The day the ‘banking crisis’ broke they had a half-hour show-and-tell already assembled. Carefully blaming the banks and ‘The Big Bang’ 20 years earlier.
It was the lie that stuck.
The BBC knew what was coming weeks in advance and had this ‘news’ item ready to roll.
The powers that be knew for months prior to the collapse of the banking industry, planning and table top exercises were carried out in various Gov’t Depts at least 6 months before….
I know. But still the lie persists that it suddenly blew up out of nowhere one weekend and Brown ‘fixed’ it personally over a bowl of cornflakes that same morning using the giant power of his brain.
But it matters so fundamentally that the fuckers who sat there and destroyed the UK economy have managed to avoid any blame. Quite the opposite, swanning about the place claiming credit for ‘fixing’ the problem. It’s so completely at odds with the facts – it’s galling. The likes of Balls and Brown laughing in our faces. Their bedwetting ‘believers’ parrotting the same lies.
If we don’t identify the fucking cause correctly then we have no hope of fixing the problem. Blaming Fred is convenient as a blame-shifting exercise but if the bedwetters actually address the wrong problem (and they still are) then we are doomed to remain fucked.
Now the forfeiture committee is on a roll, Lord Nat Wei who was given a peerage to promote the Big Society and was quietly sacked for incompetance must be feeling nervous today…
For those who think stripping Fred of a bauble is a token effort, this is not quite true… it’s a punishment which will sting quite a bit.
Fred revelled in all of the tartan aristocracy nonsense. RBS threw money at Scottish rugby (freezing boring ordeals relieved only by oceans of booze, for us corporate-hospitality veterans), Fred had gourmet pies shipped in from Dundee for RBS “mess dinner” jollies, he flew by helicopter with the likes of Jackie Stewart to golf events, he applied to join the Royal and Ancient (or whatever) golf club of St Andrews, schmoozed his way to the honorary rank of Honorary Air Commodore of 602 RAuxAF Sqn (was “resigned” by senior RAF officers… RAuxAF has lost a number of RAF Regiment reservists in Afghanistan and Iraq… at least the other greats-and-goods usually bothered their arses and actually joined local RAuxAF or TA in the good old days) plus was a keen shooter and all of the other bollocks. He would have had his eye on the New Club, Royal Company of Archers or some other Sir Walter Scott type frippery and so on….
All of that is gone now, and it will hurt a lot. It’s quite a little clique in Scotland and Fred had done well for himself for someone who had gone to a comprehensive rather than one of the old-boy establishments of Fettes, Stewarts, Heriots, Merchiston, Loretto (OB Alastair Darling, son of Sir William Darling) etc… perhaps a bit too well for himself. I’d feel sorry for him as a below-the-salt scapegoat, but he was a well-known absolute shit, so I don’t really.
There’s no question that it will hurt, especially a man of Goodwin’s extraordinarily highly-developed sense of hubris and self-worth. I do, however, feel that the selective pillorying of one man, who has not been convicted of any crime (the previous trigger for the annullment of an honour), says far more about the sanctimonious mob mentality which is now in evidence than it does about Mr. Goodwin.
The Labour Party has decided that it is blameless for the inevitable consequences of removing regulation fro the Bank of England, who could have policed the banks effectively, as has the Keystone Gestapo at the FSA. They are all hypocrites, as if that’s the smallest surprise.
Correction: Paisley Grammar is a comp now, but it was a fee paying school, don’t you know… (etc)
A Knighthood. It isn’t for life, its just for Christmas.