I ask the question because this blog takes the laws of the land very seriously and it is reported that Sir Fred Goodwin has taken out an injunction under privacy law banning anyone from referring to him as a banker despite him once having been the boss of that dynamic, but now broke, financial institution known as the Royal Bank of Scotland (prop. G. Brown esq., or at least, it used to be but now it is owned by you and me). I have studied the story in The Mail very closely and nowhere can I see any injunction forbidding me from calling him a wanker so, in view of the fact that under his stewardship his bank was only saved from collapse by the emergency injection of £20 billion of government money (or my money as I fondly think of it), I intend henceforth to refer to him as Sir Fred the wanker. I shall defend any legal action taken against me by claiming that it is a true description on the grounds that he must have been doing something whilst his bank went down the toilet because it is now patently obvious that he wasn't, er, banking! I might even sue him back because he owes me:
He left with a lump sum of nearly £3million and a pension of £700,000 a year which he agreed to reduce by £200,000 after a public outcry.
Also, please spare a thought (you know the sort, one filled with sincere hopes that he is run over by Sir Fred driving one-handed in his Rolls Royce) for Mr Justice Cocklecarrot Henriques another wanker who granted this injunction.
ADDITIONAL: Oddly enough, Guido has this mysterious item on his blog:
So there was this ****** bloke who worked closely with another ****** colleague, they apparently began an adulterous affair not long after the ****ing crisis of 2008. He went to Court to stop it getting out that he had been banging her. Because he is the most notorious ****** of his generation he also banned references to his profession lest he be identified. Guido would be in contempt of Court if he told you his name or profession…
What can it all mean?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365047/Former-RBS-boss-Sir-Fred-Goodwin-named-Parliament-having-taken-super-injunction.html#ixzz1GJLqPYrk
Er, 'scuse me David. "Wanker" isn't to be found in the dictionaries Arkansas provides - would an approximation be froglegged sorry sumbitchin' nutless boar hog?
Posted by: JK | Friday, 11 March 2011 at 21:21
My editor tells me I should offer the proper pronunciation of the "f" word - frog-leg-ged.
Posted by: JK | Friday, 11 March 2011 at 21:25
So presumably Fred can sue me, and about ten thousandothers by now!
Posted by: Mike Cunningham | Saturday, 12 March 2011 at 00:05
JK, "The only thing that divides us is our common language", as the lovely Oscar once put it - such a darling boy!
Mike, 'you might say that, I couldn't possibly comment'! Incidentally, having just read your piece I wonder that you never took up a career in the Foreign Office!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 12 March 2011 at 08:33