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  1. 31st January 2012, 07:41 PM #1
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    Fred Goodwin stripped of his Knighthood

    Sir Fred Goodwin, the former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, has been informed he will be stripped of his knighthood. He was responsible for a massive banking disaster in Britain. RBS also owned Ulster bank in Ireland, which has also suffered massive losses.

    Disgraced former RBS boss Fred Goodwin was told this afternoon that his knighthood is being removed by order of the Queen.
    t is a humiliation for the former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland, who has never spoken publicly about his role in the biggest corporate disaster in British history which cost the taxpayer £45bn, and whose lawyers succeeded in getting some direct criticism of him removed from an official report into the collapse of RBS.
    Read more: Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood for biggest corporate disaster in UK history | Mail Online
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  3. 31st January 2012, 07:44 PM #2
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    Anyone know the last time that happened?
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  4. 31st January 2012, 07:44 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Astral Peaks View Post
    Anyone know the last time that happened?
    Roger Casement?
    I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. - James Joyce
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  5. 31st January 2012, 07:47 PM #4
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    Anthony Blunt - after his role in spying for Russia came out
    and one of the Guinness fraudsters.
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  6. 31st January 2012, 07:47 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by eyelight View Post
    Roger Casement?
    I was thinking of Lester Piggot, but now see that Mugabe had his taken away too
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  7. 31st January 2012, 07:48 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Astral Peaks View Post
    Anyone know the last time that happened?
    Mail headline intro says Mugabe.
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  8. 31st January 2012, 07:48 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by eyelight View Post
    Roger Casement?
    Not sure about Knighthoods but wasn't Lester Piggott stripped of some honour or other?
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  9. 31st January 2012, 07:50 PM #8
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    Anthony Blunt was the last to lose a knighthood proper.

    Mugabwe lost the Order of the Bath, but that was honorary and is not generally considered to be the real thing. Whatever that means.
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  10. 31st January 2012, 07:50 PM #9
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    From Broadsheet.ie

    How We Differ

    1) They threw their expenses-fiddling politicians in the chokey – for MORE than one night:

    2) They cajoled the head of a bailed-out bank out of his bonus.

    3) They’ve just taken a knighthood off Sir Fred Goodwin, former boss of RBS.
    I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. - James Joyce
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  11. 31st January 2012, 07:52 PM #10
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    Was Jeffrey Archer stripped of his ermine..? Please don't tell me that complete goblin is still a member of the House of Lords ....
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