I’m glad to report that knighthoods are rarely offered to
people who are rude about the Queen or the government, but past recipients have
included Benito Mussolini, Nikolae Ceaucescu, and Robert Mugabe, all of whom eventually
had theirs confiscated for bad behaviour.
Fred Goodwin, CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008 when
it had to be bailed out with £45bn of public money, has also finally had his knighthood
taken away by the Queen. This seems quite reasonable, given his track record,
except that there is more than a whiff of cheap & easy political point
scoring by David Cameron, rather than evidence of a serious attempt to rescind
the benefits awarded to those who presided over Britain’s contribution to the
global banking crisis.
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