Comments on: Snout Of Order: Petition To Cap Bankers’ Bonuses

By: ian

ian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:51:37 +0000

simple thing is do what china did.
kill them, hang them, simple way to stop him.
its treasury’s money, public money going to a £600,000 a year pension.
just don’t pay it and say tough, when he goes to the courts say eff off.
so what if its legal, I agree.
if someone doesn’t kill him first.

By: June

June — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:46:45 +0000

Kate,

just who is indebted to whom? I think the great British public should be cleared of all ‘debt’, until the banks repay it full……..

Hopefully karma shall

By: Anorak

Anorak — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:44:01 +0000

Goodwin is why revolutions happen

By: Kate Whittaker

Kate Whittaker — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:55:50 +0000

Could he make a donation to my overdraft repayment scheme? Or perhaps he could sponsor my glasses so I can see my bank statements.. or is that too much to ask? I’m sure there are quite a few pensioner’s who would appreciate it if he, out of a humility yet shown to be lacking, or any sense of moral balance, offered to donate to a ‘wealth’ redistribution scheme… say £100/person/month?

May karma take its turn as the wheel spins…

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By: Margarita

Margarita — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:10:14 +0000

Its annoying to read/see/listen in the news all this stupid negotiation about clause in contract for these bloody bankers bonuses…. dont they understand if it wasnt for our-tax payers money -who saved their badly managed banks- they wouldn’t have a job to go to in the first place!?!?!?!
Count me in this petition!!!!…. loving the idea- bring back the bussiness to the tower of london, we can get tourism revenue and somehow help the economy…

PS: Keep what talent????? i’m sure many poor grads who just finished their bachelors and come to the current market can do the same job 100 times better for fraction of what these greedy bastard-bankers earn!!!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:10:48 +0000

The bank my Mum works for made a profit & wasn’t bailed out (but they don’t do bonuses).

By: June

June — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:34:27 +0000

I just wonder how many people will be laid off this week, and not getting paid for the work they have done.
How many shall have their pay frozen, and their tax increased to pay for the many billions paid to the banks.
You are right Allen B, the wrong people are being victimised

By: Allen B

Allen B — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:12:32 +0000

Okay so u’ve worked your ass off for a whole year on a very average salary putting in many many additional hours with the view of getting a bonus which is circa 15% of your salary. You’ve never been a burden on the system, never claiming benefits etc and you see this bonus as a way of paying you overtime. You’ve acted in good faith at all times and have no influence over decisions much higher up the food chain and then you get told your not getting your bonus. How are you feeling? I think the wrong people are being victimised!!!

By: June

June — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:57 +0000

and some slightly better news

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4680930/Royal-Bank-of-Scotland-forced-to-cut-bankers-bonuses.html

By: June

June — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:47:54 +0000

Lloyds shares have tumbled even further this morning, shall the fatcats be demanding more bonus’ then?

By: nelson

nelson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:23:48 +0000

No money was available for new cancer drugs but it was for a bank bail out. Now OUR money is being used for paying bonuses when the intention was to save businesses and jobs. This money could have been spent on much more worthy causes. The Government should not allow any bonuses to be paid. Let the bankers try taking this to court - they would lose! If it wasn’t for the bail out there would be no bankers bonus and no job either.

By: Libby Jones

Libby Jones — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:25:01 +0000

Bank employees, no matter what their designation, are paid decent salaries to undertake their work in the financial sector. I worked with the Royal Bank of Scotland in the sixties and I was paid a decent salary to do a decent job of work and I never ever received bonuses in my ten year employment with the Bank. The bonus culture is disgraceful and the government should have the authority, in view of the current economic climate, to stop this immediately otherwise it is inevitable that the situation with failing banks incurring huge losses will deepen and the taxpayer will suffer all the more. Gordon Brown, do something and do something now before it is too late.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:24:57 +0000

Put the whistle blower in charge of the banks, the only one who knew what was going on ! Ban all bonuses as well What other job receives bonuses?

By: June

June — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:19 +0000

Oh I dunno Yampster, are the banks worth that much? what with bad will, bad debts and surly sods behind the counter…perhaps the taxpayers could just elbow the buggers out of the way and start making some profit, or, at least, less of a loss.

or turn them into something useful , like a bar

By: yampster

yampster — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:46:20 +0000

Sell the banks to their staff? Have you any idea how much a bank is worth. Where are the staff going to get the money to buy it with? A loan perhaps? From the bank you are buying or from another one?

Anyway, I wouldn’t want my bank to be run by the sort of surly, unhelpful, time serving people who take their lunch breaks from 12 till 2 when the rest of us have to use their services. But hey! That’s just me

By: June

June — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:43:33 +0000

Karen, think pate not pete is ‘aving us on….

By: June

June — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:59:42 +0000

Pete

All the banks in the UK belong to big conglomerates, there is no such thing as a ’small local bank’, just branches of the big ones.
The only option we have is the Bank of Under the Mattress.

The bonus culture is a part of the financial/moral crisis over here, and stopping it would be an even better idea than capping it. The minnows work to the least salary the fatcats are willing to pay and are awarded with a bonus, the fat cats seriously do not need them, especially when the bonus is for failure and multi million.

Sadly most do not have any money, a large chunk have lived on credit,and now debt is the order of the day.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:53:26 +0000

Pete

I don’t think we do have local banks.

And some of us are Scottishers.

By: pate

pate — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:53:33 +0000

This may seem like a silly idea, but then I’m not from the UK… Don’t you have small local banks? Why not deposit YOUR money in one of those. Perhaps the UK is too far gone into socialism. My local bank executives don’t get such large bonuses, neither does the bank that holds my mortage note. But then I was proactive about such things long ago. When Bank of America (I’m an American BTW) bought out my small local bank, I withdrew my money and put it into different locally owned bank. Perhaps you don’t have the freedom of choosing from among several different banks? All I know is that neither of the banks I do business is asking for bailouts. Lucky me I guess… Seems to me that it is a bit socialist to put maximum level caps on income… But hey, if that’s what you Englishers want, go for it. I hope people in my country with the same idea are sadly disappointed. It’s sad when other people can’t be pro-active and a bit forward looking in their fiscal plans with their own money and by legislation remove my ability to do so… I’d say a better idea would be if you find that your bank pays out bonuses that you don’t agree with, close your accounts and open one with a bank that has banking practices that you agree with, in other words do some homework… Or don’t do some homework, but also don’t cry when the bank you blindly trusted fails, the onus is on you. BTW if you are a doofus who doesn’t like to do homework on where you place your financial assets, I would like to mention that the Royal Bank of Patelandia is now open and accepting deposits…