[jaysay]

HMGs excuse for not stopping this when the bail out occurred was that this pension was in the words of Gov minister Timms that it was set in tablets of stone and that there was nothing they could do. Now some months down the line it appears that it was nothing of the sort, to me due diligence wasn't used when negotiating this bail out, how can people like Simpson expect these obscene payments when, but for public money there wouldn't have been a bank to pay pensions worth two pence never mind £700,000