Fred Goodwin is a Crunch Victim.
Matt Roper of the Mirror.co.uk has done an interesting article today on two people with the same name who have lost their jobs recently. We know the one as Sir Fred Goodwin “the shred” (the boss of RBS who brought the Royal Bank of Scotland to its knees with record losses of £24billion) and the other is just a normal guy called Fred Goodwin who is an innocent victim of the economic crisis engulfing the country.
Sir Fred draws a massive £13000-a-week pension, his namesake struggles to get by on a £60.50 weekly jobseekers’ allowance.
The 56-year-old dad-of-two reckons the greedy banker should hand back some of his windfall, paid for by taxpayers after the Government’s bail-out of the bank.
Fred said:
He should see what life’s really like for ordinary people who are suffering because of what he did. He wouldn’t even last a minute.
The ironic thing is I’ve never been sacked for doing a bad job. Yet he gets paid off with the kind of money I could only dream of, while I could end up losing everything.I’ve thought a lot about what I would do if I was in his shoes, but although I’d be tempted to take the money and stuff everyone else, I honestly don’t think I’d be able to do it and still live with myself. Not after inflicting so much pain on so many people.
Maybe if Sir Fred came and lived with me for a week he’d think again about it too.
Personally I think sir Fred Goodwin should:
- Lose his title as he certainly does not deserve to be a “Sir”.
- Hand back all the bonuses, incentives he has received in the past.
- Waiver his pension since he has made enough money off RBS over the years.
- Go to jail – do not pass this problem onto the tax payer, do not collect a massive pension.
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I think this really exemplifies the rish / poor have / have not divide and my hasn’t it got big!