Here’s Ed Miliband on 31st january 2012
“if you are paid a bonus it’s for exceptional circumstances”
Ok, let’s look at the Civil Service (100% controlled by the government, not just 82% as with RBS) under Labour’s rule.
In 2008/9, civil servants were paid £130m in bonii. The department which received greatest proportion of this largesse was the Ministry of Defence, which is a byword for incompetence and waste. So were the recipients one or two shining lights delivering outstanding and ‘exceptional’ excellence in an otherwise dark morass of sub-standard performance ? No, the largesse was distributed broadly; just civil servants taking advantage of Gordon Brown’s money shower on the public sector and displaying the same feral greed labour accuse the bankers of.
This just underlines the two-faced and opportunistic approach by Miliband, who was part of the bonus benefits expansion during Labour years.