tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8639708932164880269.post2891158223409553775..comments2024-03-14T10:08:55.488+00:00Comments on The Lambeth Walk: Anger & AnarchyThe 1st Earl of Cromerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14165851377583132629noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8639708932164880269.post-12818690785245765652009-03-27T20:24:00.000+00:002009-03-27T20:24:00.000+00:00Excellent post, was writing something similar on h...Excellent post, was writing something similar on hols but you've put it all here.<BR/><BR/>I also noticed the sneering in the media as this was reported.<BR/><BR/>Between 2001, when Goodwin became CEO and 2007 RBS paid company taxes of some £14.119bn. Did anyone at HM Treasury think to wonder whether there was anything to be concerned by a bank increasing its annual corporation taxes from £1.582bn in 2002 to £2.378bn just three years later. This after all wasn't some start-up. Profits ballooned over the last decade and no one figured to question whether it was sustainable or whether it was without risk.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02430615784443429947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8639708932164880269.post-73674389346696485292009-03-27T15:18:00.000+00:002009-03-27T15:18:00.000+00:00"suppressing your inner-Socialist" -- wonderfully ..."suppressing your inner-Socialist" -- wonderfully Freudian! Now, if only, BO could be induced to suppress his inner-Communist, but that would be asking just entirely too much!<BR/><BR/>What you describe here with Sir Fred Gordon sounds a bit like what is happening in America with the bonuses paid at AIG out of the bailout money. That money was put there by congress specifically to pay those bonuses (Chris Dodd-Dem Conn) put that money in there for that purpose, and it seems clear that the purpose to have a smoke screen to hide behind while the government does other much more nefarious things. $165 million is such a large amount that we are all up in arms, and yet it is peanuts compared to the trillions of dollars they are throwing down the drain daily behind the clouds of smoke.<BR/><BR/>It is very, very important for government to have someone to blame! An important principle of socialism!Dr.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18360786634583725263noreply@blogger.com