IPSA-a-Daisy II
Last month they were accidentally paying people when they shouldn’t and now today, payday, it’s the turn of the bag-carriers and researchers to rage at IPSA. Scores of Parliamentary staff have been underpaid this month, with errors ranging from £20 to £300 shy. An all round saving for the taxpayer.
When one lowly staffer phoned the IPSA offices to complain, they could not come up with an explanation, though ever helpful they replied – “We’ve got some P45 forms if you want one of those?”
Quelle surprise. Another quango staffed by incompetent Hoons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/7863912/Iraq-inquiry-secret-documents-showing-Tony-Blairs-frustration-published.html
Incompetent liars found in other areas of government above.
Do you suppose illegal land use policy abroad might be mirrored by the increase in contentious and objectionable land use policy & applications within our own borders?
Let me see… nuclear waste, airports, windfarms, housing schemes, supermarkets, power lines, … just call Prescott & son builders at large.
http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/environment-and-rural-affairs/chartered-institute-of-building-no-progress-without-accountability-and-transparency-prescott–$21381040$366321.htm
Quote: “principles of accountability and transparency” stuff like wot we, the last gubmnt, implemented democratic like.
Collect your P45 John…. see IPSA above.
let the criminals run wild and free
The problem is probably that from a head-count of (say) 60, there are 5 directors, 5 Principal Managers, 15 Executive Managers, 20 Senior Managers, 12 tea-ladies, cleaners and photocopier operators and 3 actually doing the job, one of whom is off work long-term with stress.
and they are all related
Kenneth Clarke: Fewer criminals will go to prison
Fewer criminals will be jailed and more offenders will get community sentences because prison doesn’t work in many cases, Kenneth Clarke will signal.
The Justice Secretary will declare that deep cuts in public spending must fuel a new approach to crime and punishment that puts more emphasis on rehabilitating offenders than on locking them up
Why not lock them up cheaper?
Ask Sheriff Arpaio how.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20001864-504083.html
Why not lock them up cheaper?
Ask Sheriff Stalin how.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
oh shut the fuck up engineer you boring c’unt.
I’ve got a brand new combine harvester
Can I have the key?
You won’t be getting another so make it last.
Fucking CAP spongers
yeah right.
They’re overpaid as it is. They should be paid in packets of crisps. Though even that’s too generous.
Nik Nak’s what?
Paddywhack
surprised Guido didn’t mod that
Corn snacks are VAT free. Crisps are not. What? Not logical? Geez – what do you expect?
I learn something new here every day.
Come on Federer!
Draft legal advice given to Blair before Iraq invasion just published by Chilcot and makes interesting reading.
mmmmfffp! fmmmffff! fffmmmmmffffppp!!!
Sir, doth thou have aye linke to the aforementioned?
Documents at the bottom of the page:
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/transcripts/oralevidence-bydate/100630.aspx#declassified
After reading them, and knowing now (what they knew, but wilfully ignored then), there is absolutely NO doubt whatsoever that the invasion of Iraq was wholly unlawful. 1441 did NOT revive earlier resolutions in this case as Saddam HAD disarmed and our services KNEW that for a fact at the time.
So what?
You tell em Tone
So does this finally prove what the whole world has known for years-that Blair and his cronies are war criminals?
I’m planning my political comeback. I’ve already done my first jobby.
so it’s brown and down the pan too?
applause
Res ipsa loquitur.
I don’t understand Latvian, sorry.
Latin = the thing speaks for itself
My arse your face,a striking match
O/T but surprised it isn’t a topic. Justice Minister to open the prison gates in a ‘more liberal than a Liberal’ experiment. It’s a controlled experiment. Those not taking part get police protection and represent a constituency where there’s more chance of spotting a unicorn than being mugged, everyone
else takes their chances.
Kill a Lib Dem or Tory MP or pay a released crim to do it as an example and watch how quick they turn around on this policy
Hmm,it’s amazing just what you can get a smackhead to do for heroin
Lets start a fund to pay for the best barrister team possible to defend anyone charged with the murder of an MP.
Britain isn’t a failing state, it’s turning into the opposite of a state.
Borders Defended? Nope.
Citizens Defended? Nope.
Country Defended? Nope.
UK Troops Defended? Nope.
UK citizens privileged over foreigners? Nope.
Heads on Pikes time.
just hire a decent sniper who doesn’t get caught
oh! you’re SO butch
She was only a welder’s daughter, but she loved a nice big helmet.
She was only the the town clerk’s daughter, but she let the borough surveyor.
She was only the telegraphist’s daughter, but she didit, didit, didit…
She was only the zookeepers daughter but she knew a cockatoo.
The even older ones …..
She was only a jockey’s daughter, but all the horse manure.
She was only a clergyman’s daughter, but you couldn’t put anything pastor.
She was only a fishmonger’s daughter, but she lay on the slab and said fillet.
She was only a roadmender’s daughter, but she certainly liked her asphalt.
She was only Camerons daughter but she liked a fucker
She was only a Yorkshire girl but she liked her Huddersfield
She was only the Baker’s daughter, but her baps were available to all.
She was only a pilot’s daughter but she kept her cock pit clean.
They grounded her when they found a crack in her undercarriage.
she loved to hold the pilots stick
photogrpaher’s daughter, over developed and under exposed
dirty ol’ men the lot of you
under developed and over exposed
Is it not funny that MP staffers get a taste of what it is like to be one the wrong end of the stick?
Suddenly the lights shines into the dark and dingey corners of the public sector and finds like in the private sector people hiding away from the P45 bird,you should welcome them back into the real world instead of feeling sorry for them.
As Dan Hannon says…”Only now, though, do most MPs have first-hand experience of being at the mercy of unaccountable officials themselves.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100045349/ipsa-shows-mps-what-it-means-to-be-on-the-receiving-end-of-an-unelected-quango/
Useless assholes.
Any commercial operation creating this sort of mess would be subject to sanctions.
Why can’t IPSA give the job to a commercail payroll company who do this sort of work on autopilot.
Useless, useless tossers.
Glad you think that part-time typists on less than £10,000 per annum working in Central London deserve their monthly pay to fall short by a possible £300 – what a laff …..
My heart pumps piss…..
Best see a doctor about that (Not NHS if you like to stay alive).
With respect to Hellboy (above), my comment was a bit blase, i apologise – if my wages were late, let alone short, i’d go fucking mental.
See i wanted to put an acute accent over the ‘e’ of blase, but couldn’t, cos i’m a HTML mong.
AC1, no i don’t use the NHS, my posts are shite but i’m not stupid.
Does ´ get translated or rendered?
Oh, it gets broken! At least guidos numbering system is reliable…
However blasé works.
I use Fire-fox and install the British spelling checker add-on and I type “blase” and it suggests blasé. Easy.
every time I put html in the site cancels it out
testing É ampersand hash 201 semi-colon
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
Does Guido disable HTML because people can do dodgy things with it on a thread?
Just noticed Chrome has a web developer thingy on the right click, not much help to me though.
Thanks for the HTML learning page AC1, bookmarked.
I bet that they did not forget to pay themselves.
Fuck off and collect a p45 on your way out.
It’s just not fair! and neither is the independent parliamentary standards authority, Ha, Ha,
I wonder what work could be found for the window lickers on here? Something entering data via a keyboard no doubt.
That’s what I do for a living! I also do a bit of translating my business partners misheard customer demands into SQL and HTML.
Why are you using a keyboard (or perhaps a head-wand?) to enter data into Guidos blog?
fuck off mong
Nah ‘mong’I think your average bloggers on Guido are self employed Brain Surgeons and the likes AND all round good eggs! So stop being so superior – oh, you’re not Gorgon are you?
Have you got my cheque yet?
Do you know who I am?
Refresh my memory Gordon.
Gordon who? Nah…..never heard of you.
You are all very kind
Well, fuck me. MP’s don’t like working under a Quango? Well then, you tossers come and run a business in Financial Services and find out what its really like as a Quango Serf. These bloody Quangos are the curse of the times. They all, yes all of them need shutting down. Now. Including IPSA. Why the bloody Hell can’t MP’s run their own affiars? They are s’posed to be able to ‘run the country’. Oh yeah. Of Course. Silly me.
twas the conservatives started them
Hey, I know I know. But who said I was a Tory? I’m far left of the bloody Tories, but even farther right of sodding Labour. Anyway if the Tory’s invented them they should know how to SHUT THEM DOWN.
Lola,
You’re an Adam Smith Capitalist.
Is that good or bad?
It’s golly Good!
Ground-rents are a still more proper subject of taxation than the rent of houses. A tax upon ground-rents would not raise the rents of houses. It would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent, who acts always as a monopolist, and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of his ground. More or less can be got for it according as the competitors happen to be richer or poorer, or can afford to gratify their fancy for a particular spot of ground at a greater or smaller expense. In every country the greatest number of rich competitors is in the capital, and it is there accordingly that the highest ground-rents are always to be found. As the wealth of those competitors would in no respect be increased by a tax upon ground-rents, they would not probably be disposed to pay more for the use of the ground. Whether the tax was to be advanced by the inhabitant, or by the owner of the ground, would be of little importance. The more the inhabitant was obliged to pay for the tax, the less he would incline to pay for the ground; so that the final payment of the tax would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent.
AC1: Three cheers for LVT then? After me now. Hip! Hip! Hooray!!!
Via facebook..hey mongs your fired.
Faisal Shahzad, Jihadi, Explains Terrorism
http://thetreesofliberty.blogspot.com/2010/06/faisal-shahzad-jihadi-explains.html
watch this over the next few days as it will probably escalate into main news.
http://thetreesofliberty.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-to-earlier-post-re-us-militias.html
http://www.youhavetreadonme.com/radio/
cross border gunfire has started.
Hmmm… looks like we’ll be going back to turkey twizzlers at school, then.
Totting up the ‘E’ numbers would improve pupil numeracy.
I must say that dinners at my school have improved no end. Sure numbers dropped at first (I remember one kid in front of me in the queue exclaiming ‘Urgh… What’s THAT??!!’ as he pointed at cauliflower). But the take up has grown and surpassed previous numbers. It’s not lecturing, it’s just what’s there – and they’ve got used to it. The canteen has been upgraded and they actually like sitting in there to eat. It’s a private company though – and expensive. I’d rather a local independent did it, using local food, and encouraging local small business/employment.
and probably even more expensive.
No idea. We did find one that from what I heard was cheaper, but getting out of our contract would have cost more.
Anyway – I’m not on an anti-privatisation rant. A local company would be private too. I’d just prefer local. Not corporate.
I went to a private school in the 80′s and the food served from the kitchens was fucking awful. Year masters suggested we made our own – we did.
I remember listening to the saga unfold on The Food Programme when Jamie Oliver and others were campaigning. I think Jeanette Orrey was one of the main protagonists, and did just as you describe in her own school canteen, with startling improvement to pupil behaviour and academic attainment. Straightforward logic, really – you are what you eat.
I was surprised at how poor school catering had become. My memories of school dinners are of healthy, if rather unexciting food. We only got chips on Fridays, but chocolate pudding and custard was a popular regular. About the only negatives were the fishless fish fingers and the catering-quality roast beef. Turkey Twizzlers were unknown (and possibly not invented). We usually ate it all, as well.
Prisoners get a well balanced diet
A pie in each ‘and. That’s a balanced diet, that is.
Spit roasts a speciality.
I worked in a jail kitchen. The food was all fresh, nothing out of packets with E’s in them. Breakfast was 2 courses with cornflakes twice a week.Lunch 3 courses and tea another hot meal of at least two items.Then a supper of tea and a bun.All top grade food.
And you can have as much bread as you want (in Y.O.I’s) but it’s all thin sliced.
Ever noticed how you get medium and thick sliced bread but hardly ever thin sliced.
It’s cos young offender institutions and prisons buy it all.
S’true.
Christ I’ve been fretting about why that was. I can sleep easy now.
I once worked with an engineer who in a previous employment had designed high pressure water jet cutting equipment. The early ones were not as powerful as the modern ones, which can cut 6″ thick steel at a push, but one application he designed a machine for was a bakery. Apparently for catering markets, they make the loaves about ten feet long, then slice them. Cutters tend to crush fresh bread, so they used the HP water jet – very successfully. You’d think the water would soak the bread, but you need so little of it that it didn’t.
When he related this tale, one of the draughtsmen asked him why he hadn’t installed two nozzles, one for the water, one for butter, thus producing ready sliced and buttered. The draughtsman was told to travel, with jerky movements…
Oh well thanks, i was only trying to be mildly interesting.
Ha-fucking-rumph!
That was at Dack, not you Engineer.
Sorry. Fascinating, both. If a bread-related conversation comes up at work tomorrow I’m bound to impress
We try our humble best…do we get an A*?
Why does Andy Murray always take his mum to work?
‘Cos Scottish mums love their boys so much more than whitey English mums.
She head butts anybody who heckles her wain.
o/t BBC News at 6 conducting a classic “hate the coalition” episode… start of each story with a negative, a snippet of “govt says”, then followed by rows of talking heads condemning whatever it is.
“start off”.
Yeah well what do you expect from them so soon, change will take time, its the usual biased broadcasting corporation we all love to hate atm.
Apparently I am still Prime Minister in all but name… and job.
But I am told by Doctor Jung that none of this matters as I am still considered to be a man amongst men
Now can I have my cheque?
The stupid cnuts have fcuked up my pay, too.
why is slotgob on 4 news about releasing convicts
Andy Murray through to the semis. Get it up you!
He can only ever get a semi.
O/T
Gas leak halts production at Norway Troll A Field
According to Dow Jones, production has been suspended at several Norwegian North Sea oil and gas facilities after a small gas leak at Statoil’s Troll A field, the company said. Production has been halted at Norway’s largest gas field, Troll A following the leak, in addition to flows from Kvitebjoern and Visund oil and gas fields.
Not to worry it’s only bubbles!!
troll
How do they know that it wasn’t a large cod with a bad case of flatulence?
’cause there aint no more large cod left. You ate them all!!
Ask the Peterhead trawler crews…..
Could be some pieces are moving into position to checkmate Blair and Co
“El Paso City Hall Struck By Bullets; Gunshots Believed To Have Come From Juarez”
it wasn’t stray gunfire. I have spoke with people who fired back into Mexico. The only incident in Juarez was a mile away, quite a distance for 7 stray bullets to travel.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2544527/posts
Obummer and the democrats are letting it happen on purpose, even if you defend your town successfully they will side with the Mexicans and say oh the poor dears where forced into drugs and running cartels because of the evil American capitalists etc. etc.
Also letting the Mexicans run wild like this gives them a plausible excuse to hide behind and to raise homeland security measures like Bush did via 9/11.
IMF’s Gold Assets Shrank in April as Russia’s grew
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-30/imf-s-gold-assets-shrank-in-april-as-russia-s-rose.html
Its taken me 6 months, 17 phone calls, 8 letters, and several headbanging sessions to get back the tax HMRC owe me and its still not right. Just what do these people do all day? Its our money and in this case mine – who the fuck do they think they are???
They are there to stonewall you until you give up and they get to keep it
HMRC are institutionally incompetent. Get a good accountant to do your tax returns – they’ll save you more than they cost just in time saved.
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned Tony Blair three months before the Iraq war that an invasion would be illegal, secret memos showed today.
The Cabinet Office published Lord Goldsmith’s first draft of his legal advice and confirmed that he had serious doubts about the legality of the conflict without a fresh UN mandate.
The memo, released under the orders of Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, was written on January 14, 2003.
It stated: “My opinion is that resolution 1441 does not revive the authorisation to use of force… in the absence of a further decision of the Security Council.”
The memo also made clear that Lord Goldsmith found arguments in favour of a war without the UN resolution “unconvincing”.
Yet within days of giving his opinion, he flew to Washington for a meeting with President Bush’s top advisers and changed his mind about the legal position.
John Bellinger, the former White House legal counsel, later told British colleagues: “We had trouble with your attorney. We got him there eventually”.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23851227-lord-goldsmiths-warning-to-tony-blair-that-iraq-war-would-be-illegal.do
Presumably the Chillcot inquiry can’t call John Bellinger to give evidence?
Extradite him. Oh that only works the other direction.
Howard hits out at jail term plans
Conservative former home secretary Michael Howard has hit out at controversial proposals by Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke to send fewer criminals to prison and use more community sentences.
Mr Howard – who famously coined the expression “prison works” – said that he was “not convinced” by Mr Clarke’s more liberal approach to penal policy.
“I think in order to protect the public, serious and persistent criminals need to be put in prison,” he told the BBC Radio 4 PM programme.
“I think that is what conscientious judges and magistrates are doing at present and I think that is the best way of protecting the public.”
David Cameron defended Mr Clarke’s plans, saying that he was being forced to take radical action to deal with the “complete mess” that Labour had made of the the criminal justice system.
“I believe that prison can work, it is just not working properly at the moment,” he told MPs at Prime Minister’s Questions.
“If ever there was a part of our public services that needed radical reform to make sure prison does work, that’s it.”
However there was anger among Tory MPs after Mr Clarke used his first major speech as Justice Secretary to question the value of “banging up more and more people”, suggesting it was a throwback to the Victorian era.
He said that sending offenders to jail often proved to be a “costly and ineffectual approach that fails to turn criminals into law-abiding citizens” and called for “intelligent sentencing” with a greater focus on rehabilitation.
Tory backbencher Philip Davies warned that Mr Clarke was out of step with ordinary Conservative supporters who voted for the party at the general election.
Seems they don’t need the LDs to infight with.
It’s mere huffing and puffing from Howard and others
Dave knows he has the right of the Party firmly on a leash and they will behave
I’m sure he is Clarke-ish. Not sure about the right in the longer term.
here’s how the local crims view it. They rode up to the prison on trail bikes, smashed their way into the 4×4 that is used to patrol the perimeter. Poured petrol into it while the others held the warders at bay, set it on fire and rode off. This was to warn them to stop searches for mobile phones and drugs.
Divide and rule.
making sure the troffers don’t go to jail and when they troff they don’t either.
Well that did not go to the post it was meant for “soft on crime, soft on the causes of crime”.It shows Guido’s web designers is a total incompetent and should not be hired by anyone who wants a serious professional site
I hated Britain’s got talent until I saw the mongs who thought they were brilliant. I found their idiocy highly entertaining, like jesters. I have just had the same with Big Brother,watching the reactions of the mongs on it
I find it best not to waste my time watching shite like that.
hite van man jailed after deliberately running down stranger because he thought he was unemployed
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1290246/White-van-man-jailed-deliberately-running-stranger-thought-unemployed.html#ixzz0sN3jTj65
Once again, a very interesting read – I feel for those staff who had there wages cut – next time could IPSA cut MP’s wages, and keep it that way?