Bankers continue to occupy a place in the public esteem somewhere below paedophiles.

News of more huge bonuses funded by taxpayers hasn’t helped, as hasn’t pleas by London Mayor Boris Johnson that we risk them leaving the country if we impose punitive taxes on them, against a popular view that it would be a Very Good Thing for UK Ltd if they all took their greed and incompetence and foxtrot oscared to screw up someone else’s economy.