I’ve been awestruck as many of us have over the past weeks and months, at the utter collapse of RBS (an institution for whom I used to work) and the ensuing blamestorming that’s been undertaken by various wooly-suited, political non-entities at the ‘hearings into financial probity’ farce.

So where do I stand on this embuggerance ?

“Who cares..?” I hear you decry !

Well…I do. “Fred The Shred” is not a term of endearment you know, he came to us as the head arse-kicker in RBS via a number of significant ‘boot-application-to-buttock’ roles through Bank of Australia, then via Scotland’s very own Clydesdale Bank….he’s a long lineage in the deal-making, hard-boiled, ‘my way or yer bum’s oot the windae’ style of management and the mythology that surrounded him in my time in RBS was legend.

So given his track record why are you all stunned he’s acted as he has while leading RBS…he’s a nutter ! When he sticks two fingers up at the stock market and says ‘I want ABN’ come hell or high water, nevermind what your so-called analysts see as glaring gaps in the financials, or once finally being brought to heel (but still not accepting ‘mea culpa’) infront of a government sub-committee, and most recently claiming his pension (there’s an OAP I’m tempted to shadow to the local post office and trip on the way back to the hoose!) why are you stunned by his brazen mendacity ?

I’ll tell you…in Britain we love to hate a winner…it’s a desperate inferiority complex ! And the only thing we love to hate more than that ? A winner who’s now on his @rse…and don’t we revel in sticking the boot in ?

Though having said that…£1.2k per day pension ’til he pops his clogs ? I might enter the hitman business and see if HM Gov needs my services ?