"The bank DID make that profit, but EVERYONE in the company contributed by their actions. So you cannot say he deserved it simly onh that figure, because it is quite possible in principle for him to sit in the office doing nothing but everyone else continue to work hard and turhn in that same profit."

Without any shadow of a doubt the daftest thing I have read in ages.

Tell me DMcG was the £1.4 million bonus paid the ONLY BONUS PAID?? - Rhetorical question of course it was not.

So "it is quite possible in principle for him to sit in the office doing nothing but everyone else continue to work hard and turn in that same profit"

Possible? yes in principle anything is possible, but probable? in this case highly improbable. To turn round vast concerns from a course upon which they are headed for ruin to turning a profit requires decisions made right at the top. Tell me DMcG what things have you been in charge of and responsible for where you have sat and done nothing and just let others do all the work? How did it pan out for you?

Am I a Banker? - No. An apologist? - No. I am just fed up with people trotting out the populist myths expecting everyone else to swallow them hook line and sinker.