ME WITH A COUPLE OF PROSSIES AT A DO LAST WEEK, INIT!
Barclays has handed its high-flying investment bankers a 22 per cent pay rise - while heaping scorn on government threats to impose targets for small business lending. In a move that will intensify public anger over City pay, Britain's third largest bank has earmarked £2.9billon for the pay and bonus pool at its investment banking division for the first six months of the year alone.
The Government's bleedin' MERCHANT BANKERS, mate, if they think they can keep us wide boys back. No way mate, me and me mate Brian, we made £2 mil squid on Tuesday for gaffers, mind you we lost £3 mil squid on Wednesday. Yeh, me and him is derivatives traders. We're on the dog and bone all day, mate. Well, were top dogs, you've got to pay us top money or we won't be able to lose any of the firm's. Just joshing, HAAAR! Me and him like to down a few bottles of Chandon of an evening, if we can't find anything more expensive, mate, HAAAR!
Anyway got to go now, mate, Peregrine got us some Birds with big threepenny bits waiting to be squeezed! HAAAR! Give my best to the PLEBS. HAAAR!
