Anecdote o' the day
The Goodwin bashing season has re-opened, led by Lords O'Neill and Myners:
"Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan: My Lords, will my noble friend confirm that the notes that are issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland and bear the signature of Sir Fred Goodwin are worth £20 or £5, as they say, and that any of us who find ourselves in Scotland with such notes will be able to use them to the full extent of their value?
I will be regaling all and sundry with that one, on the basis that if Goodwin did not suffer Ozymandias syndrome to quite such a degree, it is still a terrifically amusing falsehood.
"Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan: My Lords, will my noble friend confirm that the notes that are issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland and bear the signature of Sir Fred Goodwin are worth £20 or £5, as they say, and that any of us who find ourselves in Scotland with such notes will be able to use them to the full extent of their value?
Lord Myners: My Lords, I thank my noble friend for the question. Sir Fred Goodwin is no longer signing banknotes—they are now signed, in the case of the Royal Bank of Scotland, by Mr Stephen Hester. As an aside, I have been advised that in the Royal Bank of Scotland’s headquarters in Gogarburn, Sir Fred Goodwin employed somebody whose sole job was to ensure that banknotes dispensed from the automatic telling machines in that building bore his signature and his signature alone.
I will be regaling all and sundry with that one, on the basis that if Goodwin did not suffer Ozymandias syndrome to quite such a degree, it is still a terrifically amusing falsehood.
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