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[FullLeatherJacket]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7777957.stm

"Struck off" doesn't seem to be adequate punishment for such greed and arrogance.

FLJ

[Garabaldy]

"Beresford and Smith's joint earnings went from more than £182,000 in 2000 to £23,273,256 in 2006, the tribunal heard."


oh come on..........  Id be happy with 50k a year......

[das boot]

There's plenty of descriptive words applicable to those two...best not use them on here though, but one that springs to mind is "money grabbing barstewards"..

Rich

[tolnedra]

I'm in complete agreement with you Dave, just being struck off is nowhere near enough punishment, when they are sitting on millions robbed from miners or their descendants.

Danny

[sheerline]

I smell the foul odour of 'old boy network' from somewhere near the top end of the rich society... or am I just a bad minded person

[BobF]

I would think the word you looking for, would normally Politician?
I think that's what people who do this sort of thing are normally called.

[MCAT]

Didint I hear some time ago. they were taken back STOLEN goods / money from robbers and composating those
who have been the victims.  Freeze there accounts .  strike them off  ha ha strike them hard .

[sheerline]

"I got a word for it, my word is... 'poontang'!" (from the film, 'Full Metal Jacket)
I don't fully understand the law but surely this excess created by what appears to be a shady practice could be stripped from them and distributed among those to whom it truly belongs. Having said that, what they did may not actually be illegal in the eyes of the Law and therefore they are untouchable in this regard.
Despicable swine!

[dougal99]

According to today's press report their firm is not the only one who carried out this 'legal' practice. Whether there will be other cases reviewed by the law society remains to be seen.

Doug

[Bryan Young]

I don't know how these low-lifes get their information (government leakage, perhaps?) but coming from a long line of coal mining families I became rather incensed by the crassness of the many 'phone calls almost demanding that I reveal the details and privations that my father and his (6) brothers endured as miners during the 1930s,40s and 50s. None of them are with us now. None of them complained. All had happy family lives and most lived beyond their allotted biblical time. It was very offensive to me to receive these 'phone calls promising "money" if I would agree to the preposition that they had all died because of long-term problems caused by the nature of their employment. Absolutely repellent....and who would benefit most? You guess.

[Ghost in the shell]

FLJ, I heard about that case regarding the lawyers  being struck off.  they have the prime ingredients to be politicians,

[sinjon]

Struck off seems a little inadequate.

Struck down is surely more appropriate