Sir Fred Goodwin’s house attacked

[fabiansocialist]

In the FT (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55d8ed64-1922-11de-9d34-0000779fd2ac.html):


Police were guarding the Edinburgh home of Sir Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=uk:RBS), on Wednesday after it was attacked overnight.


Three ground-floor windows were smashed and a black Mercedes S600 car parked in the driveway was vandalised. Police would not say whether Sir Fred or any of his family were in the house at the time of the attack or who reported the vandalism.

The Edinburgh Evening News (http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Thugs-vandalise-Sir-Fred-Goodwin39s.5105936.jp)reported on its website that it had received two emails from a group claiming responsibility for the attack. One of the messages read: “We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning.”


Sir Fred has been the focus of public and political outrage after it emerged that he will receive an annual pension worth about £700,000 after taking early retirement at the age of 50 from the stricken bank, which needed a £20bn government bail-out.

[Voice_of_Reason]

We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning

Whatever gets the message across, though this seems a little harsh, it also seems just as justified in its own terms. People are tired of the bullshit.


Sir Fred has been the focus of public and political outrage after it emerged that he will receive an annual pension worth about £700,000 after taking early retirement at the age of 50 from the stricken bank, which needed a £20bn government bail-out.

POOR GUY! only 700 grand a year for doing nothing we should all mourn the loss of his windows.

[RedAnarchist]

An annual pension of 700k per annum? How many of his employees will starve or freeze to death in their retirement because they don't have enough money to pay for food or heating? Whoever smashed the windows should have burned down his mansion as well.

[Poison]

I had just heard about this from a friend in the UK. I love how the same thing is happening in the US and the UK, what with AIG.

[fabiansocialist]

I had just heard about this from a friend in the UK. I love how the same thing is happening in the US and the UK, what with AIG.

In the US? Do you mean cars and houses set alight and the august persons of these fat-cat bastards attacked physically? I personally think it's the only way to go. No other form of redress is available in a society whose institutions are corrupt to the core. The rules are bent in such a way that playing by them is a complete exercise in futility. The revolution will only begin in earnest when the rich and powerful are shot.

[Poison]

No, I meant with AIG...bailed-out execs getting massive bonuses with taxpayer money.

[The Idler]

What surprises me most is the silence from Class War and that their website has been taken down.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

I have to say, looking back, that the govt really fucked up on all over on this, and the sad thing is in the case of the US that is undoubtedly due more to sheer incompetence than any real plan.

They should have waited until the companies declared bankruptcy to announce a bailout, voiding any of the bullshit bonuses exec's get for....doing a amazingly horrible job running their companies.

I mean, seriously: fucking derivative traders at AIG got millions.

But hey, Fred Goodwin makes those morons look like decent businessmen, which takes some real talent.