August 17, 2006
By Sarah Butler
DIRECTORS and City bankers are in line for bumper bonuses this year after an estimated 16 per cent rise in the spring payouts.
The Office for National Statistics’ annual assessment of the scale of bonuses said that the payouts rose by £2.5 billion this year to an estimated £19 billion.
The rise follows a £1.5 billion increase last year, suggesting a 25 per cent rise over two years.
Bonuses for financial services workers account for by far the largest chunk of the payouts, about £10 billion overall. Many banks have reported record profits this year as the stock market has revived and acquisitions and mergers boomed. At the same time profits are rising at major British companies such as BP, Shell and Tesco, leading to big payouts for directors.
In the past, big City bonuses have driven fears of interest rate rises as the fortunate few splash out on flash cars and new homes.
Last autumn expectations of big City bonuses electrified the luxury homes market. Rightmove, the property website, recorded a 16.3 per cent increase in house prices in Kensington and Chelsea in the five weeks to November 12.
Last week the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reported that demand from City bankers had helped to push farmland prices to record levels.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
