Anna B Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Bosses at a string of Quangos have received pay-offs of up to £400,000 EACH after their quangoes were abolished. Taxpayers have been billed more than £60 BILLION to fund pay-offs to staff from the eight regional development agencies which were finally scrapped last month. To add insult to injury, most of these people have walked straight into another high paying council jobs, Just a few examples: Mark Pearce, Corporate Director at Advantage West Midlands, pay-off £312,147 plus 13,500 bonus, after taking 'early retirement' then walked into a new job as managing director of public-privately run Hereford Enterprise zone the following day. Oona Muirhead, Chief Exec of South East Development Corporation, pay-off £282,054 'early retirement' deal, had already started new job as a director at defence industry umbrella group ADS last november. Ian Williams, Deputy Chief exec at One North East, pay-off totalling £374,542 now has another lucrative public sector job as director of business investment at Sunderland County Council. I thought we had no money? How many home carers, nurses, teachers, or police etc. would this fund? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erebus Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Well just look at it from their point of view. THe tax take is really just a never ending cash cow, which can be milked through clever legal waffle. In real terms its small potatoes compared to the whole tax take, hence so many sophisticated scroungers suck the cash cow tit. Now maybe some will realise why the paltry 65 pounds a week to the million sacked and the 42,000 service people sacked, are all called scroungers. Its so easy to scape goat the poor and helpless in society, while the real scroungers get away Scot Free. Seems some on this site ought to start to realise where the real scroungers are, who rake it in. How many companies rely on government grants, or Council Grants, all over priced of course, its inflation you see. THe real scroungers are them taking most of the milk and the cream, leaving scraps for the poorer scroungers, who cannot get work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 £60 billion?...are you sure... 60 thousand million...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 Well just look at it from their point of view. THe tax take is really just a never ending cash cow, which can be milked through clever legal waffle. In real terms its small potatoes compared to the whole tax take, hence so many sophisticated scroungers suck the cash cow tit. Now maybe some will realise why the paltry 65 pounds a week to the million sacked and the 42,000 service people sacked, are all called scroungers. Its so easy to scape goat the poor and helpless in society, while the real scroungers get away Scot Free. Seems some on this site ought to start to realise where the real scroungers are, who rake it in. How many companies rely on government grants, or Council Grants, all over priced of course, its inflation you see. THe real scroungers are them taking most of the milk and the cream, leaving scraps for the poorer scroungers, who cannot get work. Well said. Yet still the bashing of the poor continues. It's bad enough that Government does it, but when it's ordinary people who could find themselves in the same position do it, I just don't understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 £60 billion?...are you sure... 60 thousand million...? Yes. That's what it said in the paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Yes. That's what it said in the paper. Which one? .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Bosses at a string of Quangos have received pay-offs of up to £400,000 EACH after their quangoes were abolished. Taxpayers have been billed more than £60 BILLION to fund pay-offs to staff from the eight regional development agencies which were finally scrapped last month. To add insult to injury, most of these people have walked straight into another high paying council jobs, Just a few examples: Mark Pearce, Corporate Director at Advantage West Midlands, pay-off £312,147 plus 13,500 bonus, after taking 'early retirement' then walked into a new job as managing director of public-privately run Hereford Enterprise zone the following day. Oona Muirhead, Chief Exec of South East Development Corporation, pay-off £282,054 'early retirement' deal, had already started new job as a director at defence industry umbrella group ADS last november. Ian Williams, Deputy Chief exec at One North East, pay-off totalling £374,542 now has another lucrative public sector job as director of business investment at Sunderland County Council. I thought we had no money? How many home carers, nurses, teachers, or police etc. would this fund? It seems there's one rule for them and another for us commoners, and never the twain shall meet. It's positively obscene! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Bosses at a string of Quangos have received pay-offs of up to £400,000 EACH after their quangoes were abolished. Taxpayers have been billed more than £60 BILLION to fund pay-offs to staff from the eight regional development agencies which were finally scrapped last month. To add insult to injury, most of these people have walked straight into another high paying council jobs, Just a few examples: Mark Pearce, Corporate Director at Advantage West Midlands, pay-off £312,147 plus 13,500 bonus, after taking 'early retirement' then walked into a new job as managing director of public-privately run Hereford Enterprise zone the following day. Oona Muirhead, Chief Exec of South East Development Corporation, pay-off £282,054 'early retirement' deal, had already started new job as a director at defence industry umbrella group ADS last november. Ian Williams, Deputy Chief exec at One North East, pay-off totalling £374,542 now has another lucrative public sector job as director of business investment at Sunderland County Council. I thought we had no money? How many home carers, nurses, teachers, or police etc. would this fund? Assuming everyone got the top payoff of 400,000 you would need to get rid of 150,000 such people to add up to 60 billion. Since many/most got less than 400,000 that would be many more people than 150,000. Are you sure your figures are correct as they don't add up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Assuming everyone got the top payoff of 400,000 you would need to get rid of 150,000 such people to add up to 60 billion. Since many/most got less than 400,000 that would be many more people than 150,000. Are you sure your figures are correct as they don't add up? As I suggested in post #3....60 million maybe but not 60 billion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansheff Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Well said. Yet still the bashing of the poor continues. It's bad enough that Government does it, but when it's ordinary people who could find themselves in the same position do it, I just don't understand it. Of course the Govt do it, they want to divide the people and get the ones in work thinking everyone unemployed is a scrounger and claiming thousands in benefits. I noticed the other day when Cameron was talking ending pay offs for the bankers they never mentioned MPs losing their golden goodbye when they lose their seat.The Tories really are the nasty party as far as the working man is concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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