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Barry, what about the foot-soldiers, the workers who labour in the FTSE 100 companies and all the other companies present on the share markets?
Why can't they too have a binding vote on executives' pay?
Only tough government legislation on boardroom pratices can solve the problem.
To give one example - out of many possible instances - where bankers have made catastrophic decisions, the RBS openly admitted that its takeover of the Dutch Ambro Bank, costing almost £60 billion, was a complete error, a total miscalculation.
It had nothing to do with Gordon Brown's policies at the time, but purely with bankers' reckless lust for power and control over massive capital, with the prospect of large bonuses in return.
In fact, the Treasury is considering prison sentences for bankers who brought on the 2008 banking crisis, independent of their self-serving bonus greed.
My guess is, though, many will come to the conclusion they took the reckless actions in order to get the bonuses. So at the end of the day, personal greed will probably be considered the root cause of the 2008 banking crisis.
A new law called corporate negligence is being studied within Treasury circles, it should be up for parliamentary consultation around March 2012, but some proposals will already be put forward later this week.
February is bonus season, when the bankers decide how much they will grab and pocket from the banks' limited funds.
Hopefully they choke on it this time, and may soon the prison gates in Britain open up to welcome them!