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Letter: Protesters win a moral victory
SIR Philip Hampton, the Royal Bank of Scotland’s chairman, and Stephen Hester, the bank’s chief executive, have both turned down bonuses that have returned £2.3million back to the British tax payer. Good on them.
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Both men will, more than likely, still earn more than £1million each.
This £2.3million, that the British tax payer will receive, would not have been possible without those protesters that ‘occupied’ city centres in Leeds and around the world; and perhaps, Ed Miliband, and the Labour party’s call for a vote in Parliament to reject these bonuses in the once almost bankrupt Royal Bank of Scotland.
N Bywater, Airedale Terrace, Morley
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