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Well at least we've now got a thread which confirms that paying those in the public sector a decent wage is beneficial
Makes a fresh change
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Only on results though, something that the public sector unions are totally against.Graham_Devon wrote: »Well at least we've now got a thread which confirms that paying those in the public sector a decent wage is beneficial
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Only on results though, something that the public sector unions are totally against.
Well this doesn't appear to be on results. Will most likely be much like the argument around the outgoing BBC Director General, who was only concerned about the BBC when he took the job, not the money, until he left, and he's not become the next Fred Goodwin, with politicians looking at using force to claw some of the money back as he's certainly not gonna give it up.
Of course, I'm guessing here. But I doubt many of us would truly believe there isn't protection written into his contract should we want rid. He's got a 250k housing allowance....he's unlikely to have missed financial protection from the package.0 -
Only on results though, something that the public sector unions are totally against.
I really think that the bottom line is, one, that the average person in the street, myself included, are mystified as to what many of these policies are all about, because I admit that I have to consult 'google' to find out what many of these word mean in the first place.
This is why we vote for the party that appear on the surface to be of an education standard fitting for the job of running our country. You cant really get better than the likes of Eaton but then their backgrounds cannot be expected to understand the needs of a marked percentage of the Electorate.
Only my opinion of course.0 -
Wasnt John Major the guy who left education at high school, I never saw him as stupid and less able to govern for lacking airs and graces0
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Graham_Devon wrote: »Of course, I'm guessing here. But I doubt many of us would truly believe there isn't protection written into his contract should we want rid. He's got a 250k housing allowance....he's unlikely to have missed financial protection from the package.
Don't most people taking a job attempt to get the best deal possible?
Not me of course. I've a clause written into my contract saying that if a stranger on the internet thinks I'm crap at my job then I'll refund my salary.0 -
sabretoothtigger wrote: »Wasnt John Major the guy who left education at high school, I never saw him as stupid and less able to govern for lacking airs and graces
In any other country in the world, John Major would be lauded as a common-man hero: the bloke who went from Brixton to Downing Street. In Britain they derided his wife for freezing ends of cheese to use for lasagne.
The treatment of John Major summed up for me about 90% of what is wrong with Britain: ruled by and written about by class ridden snobs who care more about where your Dad went to school than what you achieved for yourself.0 -
Seems to go both ways though. Blair developed this strange Estuary accent once in power.In any other country in the world, John Major would be lauded as a common-man hero: the bloke who went from Brixton to Downing Street. In Britain they derided his wife for freezing ends of cheese to use for lasagne.
The treatment of John Major summed up for me about 90% of what is wrong with Britain: ruled by and written about by class ridden snobs who care more about where your Dad went to school than what you achieved for yourself.0 -
sabretoothtigger wrote: »Wasnt John Major the guy who left education at high school, I never saw him as stupid and less able to govern for lacking airs and graces
Don't disagree on the way he conducted himself.
He wasn't an effective leader though IMO."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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