Sir Fred & Retrospective Legislation

[AlfredJPruffock]

No he hasn't. He negotiated an exit package and it seems he negotiated pretty well.

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Aha - then the Government can (and they will) then exercise the Right to Review and ammend that exit package - ' for retrospective performance consideerations ... or ... in the public and national interest ...etc '

And theres nowt he can do to stop that - every court in the UK will rule on the Governments side.

New Labour just ducked a query into the Iraq War by the same method - and , a Dark Day for British Democracy (is there such a thing??) The Tories backed Labour with this shameful ploy.

[BrowneIssue]

Wouldn't it just be far far easier if Gordon Mugabe just arranged for Sir Fred to have an "accident" while he's away on holiday somewhere?

Do you prefer 'falling off a speedboat', 'tunnel car crash', 'running on the underground' or my favourite 'slash your wrists, drain all your blood out and then go and find a wood to die in'?

[Cyberman]

No he hasn't. He negotiated an exit package and it seems he negotiated pretty well.

Harriet Harman is a clueless idiot. But then, we knew that already...

We'll have to agree to disagree on that, but my understanding is that his package is linked to redundancy, when clearly he should have been sacked and not allowed redundancy terms.

[ASB]

Lamont started all this by reducing ACT back in 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...orporation_tax

Brown just continued what the Tories did.

Yes, a somewhat inconvenient truth. Can't blame the current incumbents entirely. Much as I'd like to.

[Moscow Mule]

It's just a sideshow to deflect from:

Gordo getting a mauling from a Treasury committee.
Labour incompetence.
etc
etc
etc

Harman's sound bites on the Andy Marr show were telling about how Labour runs the country:

And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it is not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that is where the government steps in.

which basically means, we'll act on whatever the papers are bleating about this week and screw any sort of long-term plan that might get us out of this mess.

[ratewhore]

We'll have to agree to disagree on that, but my understanding is that his package is linked to redundancy, when clearly he should have been sacked and not allowed redundancy terms.

We'll agree on the 'clearly he should have been sacked' point. But then, he wasn't was he? And that's what this is all about.

I fail to see (and I also disagree with Alf here) what measures the Govt have at their disposal if the best they can come up with is:

And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it is not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that is where the government steps in.

[Doggy Styles]

We'll have to agree to disagree on that, but my understanding is that his package is linked to redundancy, when clearly he should have been sacked and not allowed redundancy terms.

Surely Ratewhore is right though. The government agreed his severance terms.

I used to be all for blocking Fred's pension. Amazingly I've switched sides thanks to the behaviour of this government.

[denver2k]

I dont know much about laws and legislation but just wonder, is it possible his knighthood would be revoked ?

[ratewhore]

I dont know much about laws and legislation but just wonder, is it possible his knighthood would be revoked ?

Mandelson is sitting in the House of Lords. The bar for titles is pretty farking low...

[Moscow Mule]

I dont know much about laws and legislation but just wonder, is it possible his knighthood would be revoked ?

What the hell for? Being crap at his job?

During the boom times, he actually made a profit at the bank, which is more than can be said for the time Gordo was at the helm.

I don't see Gordo giving up his £3000 a week pension!!!