'Vigilante retribution'
Regular readers of this slot will have discerned .
Those readers may also have stumbled across the argument that political attacks on Sir Fred were partly aimed at deflecting attention from failures elsewhere in regulation - and from the relative incapacity of the political system to provide early redress.
Now, though, this controversy has entered a new and worrying dimension with the .
On this occasion, I can do no better than quote in full the statement issued by the Edinburgh South MSP Mike Pringle.
He said: "It is right that we have a debate over the unjustified and unacceptable pension gifted to Sir Fred. It is, however, wrong that his home should be targeted for attack.
"He and his family have the right to live without the fear of violence. The police should treat this case as they would any other crime."
In a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland interview, Mr Pringle argues "vigilante" retribution is never justice - but is, rather, socially destructive.
Quite.
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