Sir Fred Goodwin's house and car attacked

A group calling themselves Bank Bosses Are Criminals (BBAC) have claimed responsibility for the attack on Sir Fred (the Shred) Goodwins house and car. The much loathed former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive had his plush Edinburgh mansion trashed and his prized Mercedes S600 badly damaged in the dawn attack just 24-hrs after it was revealed his former employers still pick up the tab for insuring his fleet of luxury motors.

The BBAC issued a statement saying:

"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."

Full article http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/425051.html

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[buffbeno]

The Queen can remove his knighthood I do believe... but then why would she want to do that? after all, she's been living in luxury at the tax payers expense her whole life.

And as for the MPs, they will save us, right? nah! They would rather spend thousands of pounds of tax payers dosh doing up their property portfolio instead!

[dnHooligan]

"all around the world...same song"

when are we ALL going to stop supporting our masters?

[LoneRookRS1]

@MrCityboy1968 How sad indeed.

[MrCityboy1968]

@LoneRookRS1 Fred will always be a Sir to me.

[LoneRookRS1]

@MrCityboy1968 He isn't "Sir" Fred anymore. Well, maybe in your mind, since you seem to think these people are almost heroic. Pathetic really. Find better role models.

[MrCityboy1968]

@LoneRookRS1 Whatever you believe, Sir Fred is a human being. I don't really know whether he had an affair - and neither do you. Nor did he personally lose £24 billion. Yes, I do pity Sir Fred. Gordon Brown made him a scapegoat for his Governments failings.

[LoneRookRS1]

@MrCityboy1968 Aww yeah, let's feel sorry for wealthy people and their lavish bonuses from tax-payer funded institutions that are leaking billions in annual losses. Just because you do things successfully, doesn't mean you can take over a failing dutch bank and lose 24 billion because of expansionism and greed. If you think I should pity a horrid, ghastly little fat cat, who destroyed his bank whilst cheating on his wife and shooting elk with his rich chums, you are mistaken.

[MrCityboy1968]

@LoneRookRS1 Even the wealthy need to be defended you know. They are people too after all. It shouldn't be forgotten that he turned RBS into a power house before the crash - a crash brought about by ordinary peoples greed. I don't recall anyone complaining about Sr Fred successes at RBS.

[LoneRookRS1]

@MrCityboy1968 Well, you are clearly an apologist for a system where wealth is horribly recycled amongst an elite who grasshop between institutions, as shown in your defence for a man who cost a bank over £24 billion and millions in personal throwaway spending. Sadly there are enough people like you to defend these people, who are a result of giving too much power to the banking sector, and could be replaced by hard-working managing directors for a fraction of the price.

[MrCityboy1968]

@LoneRookRS1 I disagree. You can't blame one person for supposedly bringing down a bank. It is only right that Sir Fred was well paid. He was the boss of a bank after all. You can't expect him to get by on peanuts. In any case RBS still exists. As far as the law goes he caused no crime.

[LoneRookRS1]

@MrCityboy1968 He cost the bank tens of billions because his board of yes-men let him do it, and then took a lavish pension, while the taxpayers paid for the damage he caused. He's no longer "sir" anymore, he's simply Fred. The people took that undeserved honour away from that piece of shit.

[MrCityboy1968]

@LoneRookRS1 That's not a very nice thing to say! No-one ever complained when he was making load of money for his shareholders. It's the people that are greedy, not people like Sir Fred.