Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Or the arrogance of the self serving over paid Westminster elite.
I love the way Philip Davies Dishes it out to all regardless of party
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Patten and Boris Johnson - separated at birth. Awful smug people and not to be trusted under any circumstances.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Politicians keep on about benefit scroungers
But the biggest scroungers raping the public purse, are the middle and top management in the public sector and snivel service.
These people think it there privileged rights to help them selves and there friends to the biggest theft of taxpayer's cash ever.
The chairman of the MPs expenses committee gets £700 a day + pension
No wonder he thinks its ok to give MPs a pay rise.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have always liked chris patten as a politician but clearly not up to the job he holds at the b.b.c .
what is needed there is someone ready to wield the knife and get rid of free loaders and passengers.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Indeed as a politician his contribution to the introduction of the poll tax was applauded by many of his contemporaries during his tenure as a cabinet minister. Of course years afterwards, like the do, he told a gullible media that he thought it a bad idea at the time. Of course after that he helped bring about the environmental act which has helped us all by de-industrialising the UK and making us all poorer.
Quite a chap.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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And he pumped £ billions in to Hong Kong just before we gave it back to china
And handed out British passports like confetti
I wouldn't let him run a whelk stall ,
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a very clubbable cove though unlike many politicians in those times.
Keith Sansum1
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the BBC barryw says is a labour lefty lot
yet announcement today one of its journalists is standing for the tories
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thanks for that, I think I'll repair to the decorating
Agree with Howard, Chris Patten should have stuck with politics or stayed in Hong Kong.
John Buckley
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Yes, Patten has certainly been around and has also managed to get on numerous different boards in some capacity or other. But probably his best gravy train move was of course to be a former eu commissioner, you`ve really milked the system when you`ve hit that particular pension jackpot!
During 1999 and in his capacity as a commissioner he had a "vision" ( don`t they all! ) about the way forward, Blah, Blah, Blah. Nothing special happened of course. Just very good with words these guys, that and the ability to land plumb jobs!
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Didn't Kinnock have his whole family feeding from that particular trough ?
What a great socialist he turned out to be.
Keith B., post #3. If you or I were caught fiddling the government out of all this money, we'd be out of a job and in prison, if you're an MP, you hardly get punished, and end up with a 'consultancy' of a seat on the board, getting paid a lot of money for doing very little. Just imagine Mandelson in a council flat on a sink estate in Liverpool, signing on every other week, I'd pay to watch that. Instead of which he gets shunted off to europe and given a job as a comissioner, and when he comes back to the UK, give him a peerage. I hope someone holds them all to account one day soon.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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always comes across that when the electorate reject a politico or a potential scandal is on the cards they get shunted off to brussels to earn more money, makes reg's egp's look honest
John Buckley- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
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Just don`t get me started on the Kinnocks` Barrie! It`s not good for my health!
Jan Higgins
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When anyone who is not up to the job reaches a certain level in a big company, the Civil Service, local or national government that well known principle called the sideways shuffle comes into play.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It's officially called the Peter principle after Dr. Augustus Peter who identified it as a cause of institutional and corporate underperformance. Never liked the name much.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You wouldn't Peter - obviously, but it is true - people do get promoted above their level of competance.
Sometimes you wonder if that has happened to MPs BEFORE they get elected.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well Patten certainly fell short on that interview
showed hes not in touch with public thinking
and arrogant with it
and we pay him!!!
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