Blimey, that was quick. Barely an hour after the announcement, Sir Fred Goodwin's Wikipedia entry was headed "Fred Goodwin". It looked so bare. Without that all-important Sir, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh were just historical geezers not heroes. The contraction "Fred" in "Sir Fred" sounded cool; Fred Goodwin just sounds like a bloke down the bookie's.
I am a small businessman, the kind this government seems to have put on a pedestal, apparently capable of rescuing our ailing economy if only regulation is reduced. However, I also have a pensioner mother, a sister who is a single mother working part-time and on benefits and friends on disability living allowance.