Sad story but could you explain what this has to do with banker's bonuses (and whether this includes counter staff who may earn a tiny bonus for exceeding targets?)
If you want to be cynical, the bigger the bonuses the better, as tax is paid on PAYE, if the profits stayed with the Bank you can bet they would find a way to reduce their tax liability.
Factor is correct about the bonuses at branch level, my biggest bonus as a Branch Manager when I was working was £5000 and that year my Branch blew the targets out of the water, and that was without mis-selling because being 'old school' I would not condone it.
AOG. Yes, I remember the Winter of Discontent. It was a shambles caused by Labour and we may have the same if Labour got any power by default next year. They are after all in the pockets of the Unions!
// I suppose if the earth was about to get struck by a huge meteorite and we were all going to perish you would say it's the Conservatives fault.//
hypothetical
but the reality is that it is virtually impossible to get a secure acute psychiatric bed. Esquirel in 1850 observed that it you emptied the psych hospitals ( then called lunatic asyla ) you filled the prisons -
and if you dont learn the lessons of history you are condemned to repeat them
that is cause-and-effect and is irrelevant to bankers bonuses and meteors striking the earth
Sorry to inject some r eality into this but I have a mad neighbour ( OK if he takes his meds )
// As for Victorian values, they used to be locked up in Asylums in those days. Is that what you want to go back to? //
the mortality was lower..... so clarly there was something going for them
They were replaced with 'care in the community' otherwise known as
'lack of care in the community'
Another neighbour was so depressed he couldnt get himself to the psych outpatients so they 'deemed' he was better and automatically discharged him ! It is chaos out there, honestly
The story is that due to cost cuts there are no places in temporary care homes to place such children. The 'credit crunch ' is blamed which is alleged to have been caused by greedy banks.
Virtually all mental hospitals have been closed in favour of 'care in the community'. The result is that more and more mentally ill people end up in prisons , which are also overcrowded, and so it goes on!
/// Sorry to inject some r eality into this but I have a mad neighbour ( OK if he takes his meds ///
/// Another neighbour was so depressed he couldnt get himself to the psych outpatients so they 'deemed' he was better and automatically discharged him ! It is chaos out there, honestly ///
Couldn't have anything to do with living next to you could it? :0)