@Ed - I imagine this poll has been inspired by the recent actions surrounding the payment of Steven Hesters bonus - but his situation bears little relevance to the vast majority of the UK public - which sort of invalidates this poll, at least as it is presently written, in my opinion anyway :)
1. His base salary was 1 million or so.This is so far from ordinary peoples experience as to put him on a different planet!
Were I to be offered a bonus equal to my salary, I would have to make some significant impact on my companies shareholder value, turnover and/or profitability -preferably all 3. In Hesters time at RBS, He has failed on all of these counts - so v.difficult to justify any kind of bonus, I would have said.
2. Most people work in the private sector - Hester is effectively a state employee, so again the Hester situation is not really relevant to that for most people. Indeed, for most state employees, they are having to suffer a pay decrease and wage cap.
Many politicians, the media, the man on the Clapham omnibus have spoken with disgust at the way these super rich award themselves bonuses out of all proportion to company performance.The remuneration commitees are effectively a cosy cartel, each sitting on each others commitees and helping each other out. Cameron/Osbornes preferred stated solution is to empower shareholders to employ a measure of control on these extortionate salary packages. It must surely be an embarassment to them then that the Govt, the majority shareholder in RBS, claimed an inability to effect such bonuses - how then do they expect regular and small shareholders to effect change in other companies, given their own conspicous failure at RBS?
It took a Labour proposal to pass a parliamentary motion to shame Hester into giving up his bonus - Cameron and Osborne should be equally ashamed at their ineffectual actions, which just appear to reinforce the notion of crony capitalism...