The BBC's irritating business editor, Robert Peston, currently schmoozing at public expense with the billionaires and the powerful in Davos, has seen fit to lead the charge against the £960,000 bonus awarded to RBS chairman Stephen Hester. Peston has been all over the airwaves declaring that since the taxpayer owns 83% of RBS, Hester's pay, and that of all its senior execs, is a matter of legitimate public interest.
Well, as his own employer, the BBC, is 100% owned by the taxpayer, I think it's only right we should be told how much Peston trousers for hectoring us all the time about how well connected he is. Even the folks in the City of London, who like to keep a low profile in such matters these days, are starting to think that Peston might be just edging a bit towards the hypocritical with these attacks -- see this piece of sub-Private Eye satire.
And let's not just ask about his salary! Earlier this month, Peston used his blog to plug a study that claimed to show that even with the Government's planned reforms, public sector pensions are still "gold plated". So come on, Pesto, how big and gilded is your pension pot? I'm sure you'd be the first to argue, VERY LOUDLY and with the emphAsis on all the wrong syllAbles, that we have a right to know.
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