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Easyrider
Posted: 11 August 2022 15:46:05(UTC)
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Good to note that the law is beginning to get serious with these private sector con artists.
I wonder who the auditors were?
https://www.dailymail.co...ion-jailed-14-years.html
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Bulldog Drummond
Posted: 11 August 2022 15:56:42(UTC)
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But who will deal with the public sector con artists who have wrecked the country, killed millions, wasted or stolen hundreds of billions, destroyed the economy, and made everyone miserable in recent years? More to come as ridiculous green policies come home to roost. A bit of private sector fraud pales into insignificance by comparison.

Oddly enough, I did come into contact with Mr Schools and his Axiom fund about 10 years ago but walked away as the structure and numbers could not be explained to me and it seemed like an obvious fraud. They paid big commissions, so many IFAs were happy to sell the crap.
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Robert D
Posted: 11 August 2022 16:12:13(UTC)
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Bulldog Drummond;234249 wrote:
But who will deal with the public sector con artists who have wrecked the country, killed millions, wasted or stolen hundreds of billions, destroyed the economy, and made everyone miserable in recent years? More to come as ridiculous green policies come home to roost. A bit of private sector fraud pales into insignificance by comparison..


Super whatabbouttery

And is that the superb private sector that includes the banks that had to be bailed out by public sector to the tune of £500 billion in 2008-09?

Pales into significance, my arse (thanks Jim)
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Easyrider
Posted: 11 August 2022 16:21:03(UTC)
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Bulldog Drummond;234249 wrote:
But who will deal with the public sector con artists who have wrecked the country, killed millions, wasted or stolen hundreds of billions, destroyed the economy, and made everyone miserable in recent years? More to come as ridiculous green policies come home to roost. A bit of private sector fraud pales into insignificance by comparison.

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Bulldog, are you being serious or is the heat getting to you?
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Bulldog Drummond
Posted: 11 August 2022 16:30:51(UTC)
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Easyrider;234252 wrote:
Bulldog Drummond;234249 wrote:
But who will deal with the public sector con artists who have wrecked the country, killed millions, wasted or stolen hundreds of billions, destroyed the economy, and made everyone miserable in recent years? More to come as ridiculous green policies come home to roost. A bit of private sector fraud pales into insignificance by comparison.

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Bulldog, are you being serious or is the heat getting to you?

Quite serious. Mr Schools's jail time is well-deserved. But there are no end of rascals and incompetents in the public sector who get away Scot free with far worse.
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Robert D
Posted: 11 August 2022 16:38:49(UTC)
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Talking of private sector scoundrels and incompetents who escape jail despite having the public for mugs how's Fred the Shred doing these days?
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Bulldog Drummond
Posted: 11 August 2022 16:49:47(UTC)
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Robert D;234254 wrote:
Talking of private sector scoundrels and incompetents who escape jail despite having the public for mugs how's Fred the Shred doing these days?

A rare occasion on which we are agreed. I would have been happy to see him sent down for life.
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Easyrider
Posted: 11 August 2022 16:50:47(UTC)
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Robert D;234254 wrote:
Talking of private sector scoundrels and incompetents who escape jail despite having the public for mugs how's Fred the Shred doing these days?



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Still fly-fishing, I believe.
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Tug Boat
Posted: 11 August 2022 17:03:17(UTC)
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I don’t know what Fred did. I know he was castigated and pilloried by everyone, but I was busy back then.
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Tony Peterson
Posted: 11 August 2022 17:26:28(UTC)
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There's probably still a clip of me being interviewed by the BBC after the RBS AGM in Edinburgh in 2009 when I told the Chairman they were a "dead bank walking" and Fred Goodwin was the most successful benefit scrounger in UK history.

He probably still is.
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