Simply not true.

I worked there as a contractor during that period. It was fairly grim, but don't ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence for example. It was also a better outcome than for my previous client, Lehman Brothers, in that it wasn't dropped on the floor for no particularly good reason, throwing away even more value and confidence.

Please don't quote conspiracy theories in the absence of any actual facts.

It is true that reducing the global markets operation is stated policy, but that is about reducing risk and making RBS more viable, not to "run [it] into the ground".

Rgds

Damon

Add "on a computer" and patent it?

Rgds

Damon

DAMON MA I!

All defeated if the customer pays in cash, and intends to offload the mechanise for cash ASAP.

Rgds

Damon

I'm more used to working with 1*k* of RAM and 32*k* of code for a sensor node.

32MB? Goodness. I used to run a Sun workstation as a firewall on 4MB!

Rgds

Damon

Goodness.

So that stuff that goes on as part of everyday politics in northern Europe, eg London, is "communism or fascism with corruption, violence, and death aplenty" is it?

Rgds

Damon