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Sir James Crosby, the former boss of HBOS, has asked for 30% of his knighthood – awarded in 2006 – to be revoked after a scathing report by MPs found that he sowed the “seeds of destruction” of one of Britain’s biggest banks.
Crosby, who was chief executive of HBOS shortly before the government had to pump in £20.5bn to prevent its collapse in 2008, said he was “deeply sorry” for his role in HBOS’s failure and asked for the letter ‘r’ to be removed from his title ‘Sir’.
However, in a statement to the press, Crosby explained why he would not also be giving up his £580,000-a-year pension after last week’s report into the bank’s collapse:
Give up my pension? No chance! I’m not f**king daft you know?
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OK – James Crosby has actually asked to have his title revoked and is giving up 30% of his pension. But it would be good to see more top bankers accept responsibility for their actions, wouldn’t it?
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bobchewie said:
just one of many tom,
btw are you still following elm guest house and abuse stuff? ive got a few more bits if you’re interested…
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Tom Pride said:
Yes I am following it – but nothing seems to be happening.
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bobchewie said:
@tom pride yeah we know and why too, all the same ive got stuff you can look into if you want? shall i email it to you? let me know…ok?
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guy fawkes said:
Are you sure they call him James Crosby, more like Bing Crosby singing all the way to the bank of Monaco with that amount of pension £580k – he should be jailed and have all of his pension except the normal state pension to retire on, his probably siphoned off half of what he has supposed to have lost anyway.
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tunefultony said:
Is this perhaps to do with the news that Commander Peter Spindler of the Metropolitan Police, after having given various pledges of bringing paedophiles to justice has suddenly quit his role in Operations Fairbank and Fernbridge as well as in Operation Yewtree?? He said he wanted to spend a lot more time with his children…. OK, with children anyway….
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tunefultony said:
Monaco?? ~ We should boot all three of them out of Britain :: Sir ‘Weep For Me’ James Crosby [Sing Crosby], Andy Hornby [Bob Hopeless] and Lord Stevenson [Dorothy No More], and send them packing with a suitcase of dud fivers on the dusty Road To Morocco.. 🙂
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abbeylane5 said:
Has Fred the Shred (former checkoutgirl at Adas-or whichever unfortunate store) now completely dissapeared forever? I understand he has his dropdowndead pension from the bailouts AND a nice new job? On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Pride’s Purge
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