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Goodwin stripped of knighthood

  • 31-01-2012 5:19pm
    #1
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭


    The ex RBS boss who got away with a very tidy sum during the crisis.. getting stripped of his knighthood..

    Its better than nothing I guess

    fred-goodwin.jpg


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  • #2
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    He'll need new business cards.


  • #3
    delos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭delos


    I've little sympathy for him but I can't help wondering if in a few years Lords Blair, Brown and Darling will be having a good old laugh about what happened to him.....


  • #4
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,107 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    I don't entirely understand why a bad business decision is reason enough to withdraw someone's knighthood.


  • #5
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    I don't entirely understand why a bad business decision is reason enough to withdraw someone's knighthood.

    because he was awarded it for services to banking!


  • #6
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    but the super-injunction means we can't call him a banker


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  • #7
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    It was stripped because he had brought the honours system “into disrepute”
    URL="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0131/breaking49.html"]source[/URL

    One wonders, what the soldiers on Bloody Sunday that received their honours from Liz, would need to do in order to bring the honours system into disrepute!


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