EDM wants to strip Sir Fred meanwhile his former bank is politically vetting customers

Paul Waugh has just reported on his excellent blog that an early morning motion has been put down to strip Sir Fred Goodwin of his knighthood.

It has been put down by Martin Salter and reads as follows

That this House expresses its indignation at the continued refusal of Sir Fred Goodwin to reduce his pension; believes that in order to preserve the integrity of the honours system his knighthood should be forfeited; and accordingly calls for an early meeting of the Forfeiture Committee to consider his case.

Meanwhile on the subject of RBS,a very strange story coming from Fraser Nelson in the Spectator which suggests that the nationalised bank is politically vetting potential customers.

Geoff Robbins, a Cheshire-based computer consultant, recently approached RBS to ask for a credit-card processing facility for his business. After the usual bankers’ inquisition, he was asked a question that knocked him for six: did he have any political affiliation? Did he know any MPs, councillors or mayors? It was a new question, the lady explained to him, which had been introduced soon after the government took control of RBS. She said, in his paraphrase, that ‘political influences may be used for corrupt purposes’.

A little far fetched but Fraser checked it out by posing as a customer who was told that it was down to the high amount of fraud and that fraud seems to go habd in hand with certain political thinking