Sir Fred Goodwin
A greed-demented one-trick pony who parlayed his knowledge of takeovers into a job at the Clydesdale Bank where his mendacious Paisley hard man persona scared the crap out of other financial services wusses. (He went to Paisley Grammar then did law at Glasgow Uni - woo, tough guy.) Fred "I Do Takeovers, Me" Goodwin then managed to get a job at RBS where he realised he could play a globalised version of "see who can pee the highest", first by engineering the takeover of NatWest, then pushing the boat out by taking over (and breaking up) ABN Amro in 2007. Note: the RBS board had no balls whatsover at this point and weren't going to say, "Er, Fred, hang on a minute."
Paying over the odds for ABN Amro, plus RBS's reliance on derivative financial voodoo to generate huge profits, drove straight into the brick wall across the M8 that was the Credit Crunch. Parliament's appalling inability to deal with this was made plain when Fred (and his chairman) sat in front of a Treasury Select Committee and claimed to be squeaky clean because "We never sold sub prime mortgages" (despite dealing in reconstituted sub prime mortgage financial instruments, the dissembling fucks). Did the dimwit chairman call them on this? Oh no. They also said "Who could see the problems in the money markets coming?" Oooh, how about multi-millionaire financial experts who get paid to notice this kind of thing, eh Fred?
In conclusion, a Gordon Gecko cuntbag whose ego has helped put the UK public finances into such a hole that your kids will still be paying off the loans when they're middle aged. Not his kids though, they're rich.
He. Gets. On. My. Nerves.
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In the words of Jack Black in Viz
"If I try hard and completely fail at something, then one day maybe I can receive a multi-million pound pension at the tax payer's expense."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:28, closed)

And

fucked up the company that was an absolute joy to work for - Direct Line. It was making too much money and was too independent so they brought it back into the corprate fold and had it run by bankers. Ruined the company, ruined the inovation and all the crazies (who made the compny so much money) left.

4 times I'd worked there on different contracts. Magic place to work...

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 13:33, closed)