Says the bankers’ toady in an attempt to justify their massive greed, so be sure to punch him in the face when you see him.
It’s our own fault that these assholes take the mickey after our money bailed them out. The Royal Navy had a tradition of executing admirals unlucky enough to lose one battle too many; this should’ve been done to a couple of bankers as well when the crisis hit last year. Because we didn’t, but instead bailed out the fuckers without demanding anything in return, they now feel emboldened to demand bigger bonuses or they’ll move abroad. If they were smarter they would have stayed silent, but if they were as smart as they think they are, they wouldn’t have caused the crisis in the first place…