badgerx16

The last time we had a majority Liberal Government, Labour was a fledgling party with 29 seats, women couldn't vote, and Eire was still sending MPs to Westminster.

It is a Public Sector body that on April 1st loses 28% of it's budget as compared to last year.

It's just that articles like the one you quoted are taken as being 'the norm' across the public sector, when in fact it is far and away a miniscule minority of the jobs that fit such a category. Yet some people swallow this tripe wholesale and believe every bit of hype and drivel the Heil, Torygraph, and Express spout.

Owing to a 3 year recruitment freeze, the 4 have been doing the work of 5 for quite a while. This is purely a financial decision, work requirements are secondary - 28% of budget cut by April 1st across the organisation.

I have just had a meeting at which I have been told that, after 28 years with my employers, my job is at risk of compulsory redundancy. Not in a 'non-job', but an essential technical/professional role, where 4 current posts are being condensed into 3. How 'into perspective' is that ?

They may have invented the tactic, but the BrokeBack's, ( are you reading this JohnnyB ? ), will take it to a whole new level.

septem

It's a standard distraction tactic - be seen to withdraw on a policy that makes bugger all difference to the economic well being of the country and be seen as a 'listening and caring' Government, whilst pushing ahead with far more divisive and destructive ideologically driven programs.

As an example, and to change the emphasis of the discussion, a man was jailed for 3 years for raping his wife, and ordered to be placed on the SOR indefinitely. Should he have the right to ask to be removed after 15 years ?

The law cannot discriminate selectively between different offences, all the principles of 'natural justice', etc, must be equally applicable to every case, no matter how abhorrent they might appear. Otherwise we set off on a slippery slope where successive populist Governments pander to the baying media and add another group of undesirables to the exclusion list. Who makes the decision over what offences qualify to be exempt from an appeal process ? Remember that there are many people on the register who are not pedophiles. All that is "required" is to be sentenced to 30 months or more for a sexually related crime.

bide

Don't think it changes much - All it says is they have the right to ask to be considered for removal from the list. The Old Bill will then 'review' their situation, decide that there is just cause to keep them on the register, and the offender will have no right to appeal the Police decision.

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Jimmy

If there are any LGBT people viewing this thread, are you offended by the use of the term 'BrokeBack Coalition' to describe the leadership of a Government nobody elected ?

I think I stole his thunder by quoting the Daily Heil against him. Maybe he can find a Socialist Worker article to support his position.

To paraphrase Jack Nicholson - "He can't handle the truth."

You just can't cope with the concept of a Socialist with the ability to express his own free will, and more importantly who finds something mildly amusing in a derogatory term for the leaders of the coalition that derives from the CONservative party mandarins.

Yep, what of it, Tory boy ?

You do realise that I am quoting Lord Ashcroft, don't you ? http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/24/david-davis-brokeback-coalition-pub-talk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297454/Cameron-Brokeback-Coalition-backlash-unhappy-backbenchers-Tory-Lib-Dem-link-up.html

Top ten salaried Chief Execs in Local Government : Cumbria County ( Conservative control ) Wandsworth ( Conservative ) Kent County ( Conservative ) Essex County ( Conservative ) Newham ( Labour ) Liverpool ( Labour ) Hammersmith & Fulham ( Conservative ) Lambeth ( Labour ) Suffolk County ( Conservative ) West Sussex ( Conservative ) Article here - http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=91531 and a full list can be found in this file, linked at the bottom of the article - http://www.gmb.org.uk/docs/Top%20council%20earners%20Chief%20Execs%2009-10.xls

Lets make a more appropriate comparison - with the paid Civil Service. I have selected a story from the Daily Heil, just to show I'm not being partisan; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159860/700-mandarins-earn-100-000-year-new-figures-reveal.html Gus O'Donnell, in 2009, is listed as earning £285K per annum. And from an article in the Independent last year, ( after the BrokeBack coalition took office ) - "He was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet in 2005, with a salary of £240,000. He will have a lump sum of £305,000 and an income of £105,000 a year when he retires". ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gus-odonnell-to-quit-before-next-election-2049100.html )

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