shameless
Remember the elephant ? Recently, the entire British political establishment and media have noticed that elephant and are falling over themselves to condemn him and announce that he really should be extinct by now. But the more they do this, the more certain banks are pretending that he isn't there, and maintaining a continuing silence while the executives decide what, if anything, they can get away with. And so it is with us...
Last night on the BBC I heard it suggested that Mr Brown is hoping that bank executives will be 'shamed' into refusing their bonusses, even if they are offered. What planet is he living on ? If the people in question were capable of feeling shame, they would not be working for organisations whose main function is to gamble with other people's money and take a share, win or lose.
But the most convincing riposte to this wishful thinking comes from Google. If you type in bankers;bonus;shame, the first suggestion Google makes is:
Did you mean: bankers;bonus;scheme ?
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