Few million for the road, old boy?

I just love the way RBS shareholders are kicking up a fuss now the proverbial has not just hit the fan but smashed it to smithereens.

These of course would be the same shareholders who have been demanding higher and higher profits every year and not caring how they were made as long as the share price kept rising and the dividends kept coming.

As for Sir Fred Goodwin giving his ill gotten gains back . . . why should he? Obscene as his settlement was you can't blame him for accepting it and I suspect he has little inclination to help those who agreed it by getting them off the hook by discovering a remarkably well hidden altruistic streak.

He got away with it because those who agreed it knew nothing else but excess and didn't quite grasp that the chaos around them might just mean the trough was empty.