Comments on: Andrew Gilligan: Are We Getting Full Whack from Nick?

By: 6E P

6E P — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:17:46 +0000

Whats wrong with anyone having more than one job? When I was a kid many of my contemporaries had paper rounds, walked dogs, AND stacked supermarket shelves! Its the same principle for all of us. If we want to earn more we get additional work where we can or where its offered. Some of us will do overtime. Some will work in the public sector by day and then use their professional qualifications in the private sector at the weekends.
This hysterical Gilliganesque fingerpointing is ridiculously unimportant and somewhat uninteresting.
If its all up front and taxed, whats the problem?

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:26:09 +0000

Just out of curiosity, how do you vote VERY STRONGLY? I mean for years I’ve been a keen supporter of the democratic process but now I feel my actions have lt me down, I’ve only been voting with no suggestion of attached strength!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:09:45 +0000

Looks like the public sector are going to be the fall guys for the excesses of some of the private sector. For years, whilst the private sector was doing well we heard tales of huge bonuses and profits and their justification was that they were willing to take risks and therefore they deserved the windfalls they got.
But suddenly comes the flipside of success and risk and now it seems that everyone has to shoulder this burden. They weren’t so interested in sharing their successes but are more than happy to share around their failures.
How many shares did BA give their workers during successful years?
How often did the ‘fat cats’ so no to inflated pay-rises when their salaries were so out of step with the salaries of the hard working teachers, doctors and fire crews? The old mantra of risk taking and getting the best person for the job has been trotted out again and again. It now seems though that this was a risk-free risk as they reaped the successes but passed on the failures

By: Indigo

Indigo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:02:41 +0000

Today I heard that a friend’s daughter, who has been a nurse for nearly 30 years, has just been asked to work for a month for NO PAY. Yes, do her extremely responsible job for no money for a month.

Meanwhile, MPs who already receive three times the national average salary can “top it up” with up to six additional jobs that entail no nursing or giving out the correct drugs or dressing surgical wounds, one Labour MP even attaining £148,000 a year.

Something has gone terribly wrong, and although it has happened on Labour’s watch I have yet to hear any Labour MP suggest that s/he should do something so socialist as redistribute any part of his income. An MP would not even notice it, were one nurse’s salary paid from his/her own monthly salary.

By: Indigo

Indigo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:19:16 +0000

Nick Raynsford

* voted very strongly FOR the illegal invasion of Iraq – worst mistake in British foreign policy since Suez;

* voted very strongly FOR the introduction of ID cards – this week the Government abandoned the attempt to make ID cards compulsory;

* voted very strongly AGAINST an investigation into the Iraq invasion – now going ahead, and parts of which will be held in public (no thanks to the Goverment).

Rockpools recruits for the Olympics Delivery Authority.

Six jobs as well as being an MP. ‘E’s ‘aving a laff.

By: Sue McNeil

Sue McNeil — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:06:42 +0000

Could Nick Raynsford’s Chairmanship of Rockpools, who boast on their website that they were responsible for “recruiting the entire top team to lead the Olympic Delivery Authority” have any influence on his utter stonewalling and active discouragement of any opposition to the Olympic Events in Greenwich Park despite the obvious risks, closures & disruption to his constituents’ lives and businesses?

By: Brockley Nick

Brockley Nick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:35:39 +0000

Balanced, reasonable… what have you done with Andrew Gilligan? Good article.