They could quite easily have gone on the offensive over tax loopholes, bankers bonuses, property taxes, and the mega rich.

But the Government can still find the money for foreign aid, foreign wars and bankers bonuses.

After all,when the banking crisis broke in 2008, Brown did not even have anything to say about bankers bonuses.

First the continuation of our bankers bonuses and now a gift to her Majesty.

Some of it almost certainly ended up as bankers bonuses, but quite a lot may have disappeared to the Caymans.

"its not actually compulsory to introduce the subject of bankers bonuses into every argument"

In other words banks have become nothing but a way of turning taxpayers money into bankers bonuses.

Also, this isn't a "bankers bonuses" issue, because I don't think banks do high frequency trading much.

It's a basic rule of Guardian comments that bankers bonuses must be brought up whatever the subject.

KIng casually threw in his line about bankers bonuses merely as a little piece of news management.