Wherever in the world has the former grammar school boy and banker, to whose lifestyle all MPs aspire, got to? Richard Ingrams reports that Sir Fred Goodwin‘s been sent to Coventry again:
The only confirmation of his existence came a few days ago when it was reported that his application to join Scotland’s famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club had been turned down on the grounds that in the eyes of the members he was “the wrong kind”. They didn’t like the cut of his jib in other words.
This is not the first time Goodwin has had trouble getting into a Scottish golf club. A year or two ago The Sunday Times reported that when he applied to join the posh Bruntisfield Golfing Links Society he was told that there was a 10-year waiting list and that he would have to wait his turn. The reply was the traditional, “Do you realise who I am?” The secretary said he did.
