Dunno if taking back Fred Goodwin’s knighthood means Her Majesty now has a spare gong to dish out. If so, Alf will be putting up his hand and saying me, me, me…
He will do this very discreetly, so as not to draw attention to his somewhat desperate yearning for a title, but as his mates know, he has long fancied being called Sir Alfred Grumble and the missus – just quietly – would like to be known as Lady Grumble.
Meantime he has had a look at newspaper coverage of the events that have turned Sir Fred into plain old Fred.
He refers, of course, to Fred Goodwin, the former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland who was Sir Fred Goodwin until this week.