…without having a clue how actually to go about “clamping down”.

A pledge is as good as done.

*cough*

or maybe not…

Ah, yes, Brown’s pledges. Better than his actual deeds, I suppose, because an empty vacuous pledge still beats ill-conceived actions that have disastrous consequences because they haven’t been thought through, (10p tax) or were pursued for personal kudos but national ruin (PFIs etc).

But we are told not a total clamp down, he likes the bonus payments for doing real things like making money, so in fact he is bending over backwards for the bankers, perhaps he hopes to be one in nine months time