Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
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Yes The People's Port
Still got my nonsense £10.00 Share Certificate
Jan Higgins: Why do you want the job and all the aggravation that goes with it?
£154.00 an hour. I could take on a great deal of hassle and aggravation for that hourly rate
Button- Location: Dover
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christine.a wrote:
£154.00 an hour. I could take on a great deal of hassle and aggravation for that hourly rate
You can apply next year then! Personally I'd be wanting much more recompense.
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Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
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"You can apply next year then! Personally I'd be wanting much more recompense."
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Well spoken Sir. Very Clever etc.
Actually, I feel it is an obscene amount of money, for one who is trying to justify it by saying - He is involved with Community Activities etc.
Really?? How, can you be worth £154.00 an hour in a poverty ridden town like Dover?
A local lad too.
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Mr Wiggins, like his fellow Community Director, is in receipt of DHB's standard remuneration for NEDs; the average income in Dover is irrelevant but, were you appointed next year and found the comparison obscene, no doubt you could donate to local charities.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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When you are a NED that is what you receive.End of .Yes Dover does have poverty but the neglect in some areas of the town is appalling .From the bus window yesterday I observed the rubbish and over grown gardens that was in the area opposite the Charlton Centre .Cherry Tree Avenue and some parts of St Radigunds.Where is the pride .Money has nothing to do with being responsible for where you live..
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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This posting is becoming more about an individual rather than maybe looking at wages in general.
It doesn't make it easy to pay this type of wage for a couple of days a month,
but DHB are not alone in paying inflated wages.
recently it published major charities were paying chief executives more than £100,000 now they have attempted to justify it.
but in reality when you give dosh to a charity you think its going to help the people its set up to serve not line some ones pockets.
Then we look at MP's pay wow look just at what Charlie claimed more than his £70,000 wage
Onto so many business's earning over £100,000
All this is ok if people locally are struggling for survival
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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There's a lovely song by George and Ira Gershwin that comes to mind reading this thread - "Nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try".
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:There's a lovely song by George and Ira Gershwin that comes to mind reading this thread - "Nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try".
And that is the goal that surely every working person hopes to reach, however impossible it may seem. I think it is a shame that those who attain that goal through their own efforts are frowned upon, could it be jealousy or simple sour grapes.
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Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
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Definitely sour grapes methinks.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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It’s the politics of envy and Marxist dogma. When will people realise that you don’t make the poor better off by impoverishing the wealthy?
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Well, if you were to 'impoverish the wealthy' then that would simply add to the nunber of people in poverty. But it is neither envy nor dogma (marxist or otherwise) to point to evident inequalities of wealth. It is, however, dogma to claim both that these inequalities are necessary and that they are necessary because wealth trickles down. The evidence of the experience of the last several years under the ideology that dare not speak its name is that wealth has the opposite habit of very much gushing up. But that's all really for the 'N' thread as, whatever the virtues and faults of Mr Wiggins, I don't think he can be held reponsible for the imposition of that particular dogma of inequality.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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You will always need bosses and people who have worked hard to provide employment for those who need jobs .My sons take on young apprentices .Both sons studied hard and now see the results of hard work and ambition .Sadly they see their taxes go up to keep those idle wasters that frequent our town .Blaming the council and e eryone else fore their misfortunes .
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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No sour grapes on my part, Jan et al. I've had my fun with Townsend Thoresen, P&O (through the disaster and the strike), Eurotunnel from its beginning and DHB. I'm somewhat unclear as to what Mr Wiggins brings to the party but I'm sure he'll explain if he feels strongly enough about it once he's got back from Panama.
As for the People's Port, it's hard to deny that the very idea is now laughable and consigned to the history of Dover's follies. For a brief moment it gave the impression that all of the Dover stakeholders might pull in the same direction. Some hope.