Keith Sansum1
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Its giving a full story, rather than one liners, better to have the longer story giving al the info, than a one line such as
I disagree.
just my opinion
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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How much more do they sweep under the carpet........
Minister's veto keeps public sector jet set's £77m flight bill a mystery
: Public servants spent £77m on inter-city hops and First Class tickets to tropical islands - but their
departments must remain a secret after the minister for transparency ruled it would be wrong
to subject them to 'hostile scrutiny'.
Chloe Smith, the Minister for Political and Constitutional reform, has ruled that civil servants
would be subject to "hostile scrutiny" if a secret government database detailing £77m of flight
bookings, including a £1,700 round trip from Birmingham to Newcastle, was released in full.
The Daily Telegraph has obtained the records of 235,000 airline bookings covering 1,302
destinations made in one year by the Government Procurement Service (GPS), which acts
as a travel agent to the civil service, councils, quangos and the NHS.
They reveal how public servants:
- wasted thousands of pounds booking long-haul flights at more than ten times the price found online;
- frequently used air travel for short flights across Britain that could be made by train;
- breached civil service rules by making hundreds of First Class and business class flights over short distances;
- made more visits to tiny tropical islands than to some of Britain's most important trading partners.
Crucially, Miss Smith's decision to keep the departments and public bodies who used the flights
secret makes it impossible to say which of the journeys were strictly necessary. It cannot be said
which were booked by Downing Street or the Foreign Office, and which by local councils or quangos
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Foreign aid charities defend rising executive salaries
"Leading charities have defended the income of their chief executives after research revealed that the number receiving six-figure salaries at Britain's 14 biggest foreign aid charities has risen by nearly 60%, from 19 to 30, over the past three years.
The number of staff on salaries of more than £60,000 at charities - which form the 50-year-old Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and co-ordinate disaster relief during global emergencies - increased by 16%, to 192, between 2010 and 2012, the Daily Telegraph reported. Eleven of the executives were paid more than the prime minister's salary of £142,500 a year in 2013, while some senior staff at some charities had pay rises despite falling revenues and donations..."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/06/foreign-aid-charities-defend-executive-salaries Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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no wonder many are reluctant these days to give to charities
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Our Charlie is after the elite greedy pigs...................
Save the Children executives shared £160,000 bonus pot
Executives at Save the Children, one of Britain's best-known charities, shared bonuses worth
more than £160,000 last year, The Telegraph can disclose.
Save the Children executives shared £160,000 bonus pot
In 2012 £22,560 was paid out to Save the Children's chief executive Justin Forsyth Photo: AP
Performance-related pay for executives at the charity rose by more than a third on the year before and
will fuel concern about boardroom pay at the UK's aid charities.
Details of the bonuses emerged after The Telegraph disclosed a significant rise in the number
of top executives at aid charities who were paid more than £100,000 a year, despite a fall in
donations and revenues in many cases.
The research prompted William Shawcross, the chairman of the Charity Commission, to accuse
the charities of bringing "the wider charitable world into disrepute" by accepting large pay rises.
Charlie Elphicke MP, a member of the House of Commons public administration select committee
which oversees the charity sector, said the bonuses were "inappropriate and objectionable".
He said: "Out-of-control salaries for charities risk bringing the voluntary sector into disrepute.
Volunteers who are paid nothing will rightly ask why charities are paying bonuses like they are
some kind of bank or big multinational. It seems inappropriate and objectionable."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I would support Charlie in this campaign
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I think we all would.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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I recall that the head of one of the South Easts biggest Housing Associations, a registered charity, was top of the highest wage earners.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Over paying at the top is endemic ,there all at it
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a lot of talk about catching the dodgers but little success in action .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23621738/Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Just in case others could not find link.....
The effort must continue however......
Courtesy Independent....
More 'tax-dodgers' added to most wanted list - but only one of last year's 20 has been caught
Ten new names added as HMRC renews appeal on 19 suspects wanted for variety of tax offences
Ten new alleged tax-dodgers have been added to the Government's most-wanted list, although
just one suspect from the original list has been caught.
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published the names and pictures of 20 people accused
of fleeing the country while owing millions in some instances for the first time in 2012.
The images features pictures of each of the accused's faces, accompanied by "Wanted".
According to HMRC, the appeal helped gather intelligence on 15 of the alleged offenders and
contributed to the arrest of one. But despite the intelligence received, no others on the list have been caught.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Police asked to examine pay-offs to BBC bosses: Corporation spent £60m on severance deals
to senior figures over eight years, report reveals
George Entwistle collected a £450,000 pay-off after resigning two months into the job as Director General
Police have been asked to assess whether paying large severance deals to top-ranked BBC executives
amounted to misconduct in public office.
Discussions were revealed in correspondence between the Metropolitan Police and Conservative
MP Rob Wilson, a critic of the size of the pay-offs.
In a letter to the MP, Mark Rowley, Assistant Commissioner of the Met's specialist crime and operations
unit, said: "We are currently gathering information to assist with our assessment and a decision will be
made as to whether we progress to a full investigation in due course."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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who else would get a contract to leave an industry this way
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i still don't understand how someone gets a pay off if they leave of their own free will.
same happened a few times at kcc.
Brian Dixon
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its all in the small print howard.you know the stuff you need to read with a magnifying glass.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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oh I forgot you need a law degree as well.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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no you don't brian
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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yes you do kieth,its all that legal jargon you need to wade through,if you don't your up the swanny with out a paddle.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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the haves,,,,,,,,,,
are never up the swanny
boss of royal mail showed with her pay off
bbc bosses showed with there big py offs
need I go on
no legal qualifications required
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