Calling him "Fred the Shred" is apparently still OK but don't call him a banker! To be fair to Fred Goodwin, there are few names as insulting as being called a banker. Some people say that cattle rapers even hate it when prison inmates call them bankers. If you thought the US courts were a poor excuse for justice, the British courts are looking pretty bad with this story. If you have enough money, the courts will even protect your image with a superinjunction that blocks the press from calling you a banker. And once again remember, the bad guys hate us in the west because of our freedoms. Hooray for democracy!
The existence of the measure – which bans the press from reporting that an injunction has been obtained – can be revealed after a backbench Liberal Democrat, John Hemming, raised the issue in the Commons.
"In a secret hearing this week Fred Goodwin has obtained a superinjunction preventing him being identified as a banker," said Hemming, the MP for Birmingham Yardley.
Hemming, who used parliamentary privilege to avoid the legal ban on reporting the use of superinjunctions, asked: "Will the government have a debate or a statement on freedom of speech and whether there's one rule for the rich like Fred Goodwin and one rule for the poor?"
