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**WreckerL** · 01-02-12, 11:37

According to the Jeremy Vine show which was debating the subject of honours being rescinded, there is a committee that sits (forget the name of it now) to decide if the honour should be taken back. Only the PM can call this meeting, so Dave did have an input. Sorry about that MG Maniac.edited for bad England innit!

**MG Maniac** · 01-02-12, 11:55

Fair comment! and did hear on an "Independant" radio station (other radio stations are available) that DC had been making noises about de-frocking "Fred" so perhaps it was a direction from HMG but that could have been on the back of pressure from the regulatory body.

**flymo** · 01-02-12, 12:16

Originally Posted by lesbryan

AAahhh yes but we live in 2012 and we all know the quenn does not make decitions anymore she is not queen elizibeth the first .She has an army of advisors

Or second even (unles your Scottish of course .. )

The Queen does what she is told to .. by more than just the Government of the day

**Flagdeck** · 01-02-12, 16:38

Originally Posted by WreckerL

According to the Jeremy Vine show which was debating the subject of honours being rescinded, there is a committee that sits (forget the name of it now) to decide if the honour should be taken back. Only the PM can call this meeting, so Dave did have an input. Sorry about that MG Maniac.edited for bad England innit!

It's the 'Forfeiture Committee'...............but there again, I'm just a smart arse !

**finknottle** · 01-02-12, 20:47

It's brilliant he has now joined the rogues gallery along with the likes of Blunt and Piggott, I love it and by all accounts being de- sir'd will cut him deeply but he will no doubt survive on his RBS pension of £342,500 a year along with the tax free lump sum when he left the bank of 2.7 million, I’ll bet he invested that wisely.

**Guns** · 02-02-12, 09:45

I think it is wonderful that we have sent a signal out to the world of business that if you broken no law but we think you are a bit shifty we will hound you. Why look at the stock market with RBS loosing £900,000,000 in share value as it seems that working hard at a job and on a contract agreed on before is not what people want. They want their pound of flesh and so we heckle a man to not take what he has worked for and to strip the gongs of a man not convicted of any crime while Labour Peers who committed fraud of our tax money and did time inside are fine to parade themselves as Lords (and getting a prison sentence is very hard to achieve - look at those men who battered a man nearly to death yet walk out of court and not to jail even though they were found guilty).

Strange old world of jealousy and envy.

**angrydoc** · 02-02-12, 09:58

Completely agree Guns - I think Goodwin has been made a scapegoat for the whole thing. The Government went for it because mob rule (ie the tabloids) demanded it and Labour wanted it because it distracts that it was their poor regulation of the industry and ridiculous fiscal management that got us here in the first place!

**finknottle** · 02-02-12, 18:58

It's about time these legends in their own minds top bankers were brought to heel, for too long successive governments have been running scared of them and I take a great deal of pride in being one of the lynch mob.

It's nothing to do with jealousy or envy, it's about seeing a man who took reckless risks with other peoples money being brought down a peg.

**trelawney126** · 02-02-12, 19:22

Originally Posted by finknottle

It's about time these legends in their own minds top bankers were brought to heel, for too long successive governments have been running scared of them and I take a great deal of pride in being one of the lynch mob.

It's nothing to do with jealousy or envy, it's about seeing a man who took reckless risks with other peoples money being brought down a peg.

Don't give us that crap Finks, you only want to bid for his coronet and bit of ermine on eBay .