andygardener Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Jolly good! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/89dc0d42-4c2a-11e1-b1b5-00144feabdc0.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Story here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 It’s a pointless title anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barpen Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 why did they knight him in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 why did they knight him in the first place? "Services to banking". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hard2miss Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 "Services to banking".In the way a man services a woman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 why did they knight him in the first place? He made a series of acquisitions turning RBS from a small bit-part player into one of the largest banks in the world. Everyone thought it was a brilliant strategy, and everyone wanted to pile as much money in as possible, until one of the acquisitions went wrong and bankrupted the company, at which point everyone has decided that he personally is to blame for the whole fiasco. There was probably some similar guy that was held solely responsible for the bubble bursting in 1929 after untold millions of people had been borrowing money they couldn't afford to buy shares that were over-priced, in the fatuous belief that the prices could only ever go up. After all, the general public is never to blame no matter how stupidly it behaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthedog Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Hmmm. I'll happily be a Mr for the rest of my life in exchange for his pension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barpen Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 "Services to banking". So who's idea was that, Thatcher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 So who's idea was that, Thatcher? No ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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