A Pilgrimage to Westminster
Following exposés by both Guido and the Mail on Sunday into the activities of Jane Pilgrim, pressure is now mounting to make the practise of employing trades union officials full time on the taxpayer illegal. David Morris MP just raised this at today’s Health Questions:
“There have been press reports recently that money earmarked for frontline NHS services is being used by hospitals to pay salaries to Trade Union officials. Does my Rt Hon friend (Andrew Lansley) believe it is acceptable to spend taxpayers’ money on union hatchet people and will he order an urgent investigation.”
The reply came with the usual expectations of “behaving responsibly”. But Pilgrim’s activities did not go unnoticed in parliament and in councils around the country. Plates could well start to move on this issue soon…
Good news , Get stuck in!
It’s all part of the Union Modernisation Fund and its used to fund the Labour Party.
You only have to look at Bob Crow to realise the Union Modernisation fund wasn’t working.
it was for him.
That fat ignorant bastard was on Toady this morning. What an arrogant and loud-mouthed little shit he is. (Should be rising up rapidly through Liebour’s ranks in that case.)
Suck it up pussy. Ain’t one party with the cajones to touch me or me union brothers. Keep paying your tax now, there’s a good pussy.
How come it takes a blogger to raise these questions?
The whole system is a bitt too cozy
It’s the thin end of a wedge that Happy Clappy Dave wants to avoid.
If he does what we demand and deals with parasites such as Nurse Pilgrim, soon we’ll be demanding the heads of bigger fish, and there’s no telling where that will end. Dave’s plan: keep quiet and hope it all goes away.
It worked for Blair.
Eleven years before anyone noticed that a lot of the new peers seemed to be millionaires.
Terrible spelling
Sack the barsteward !!
Banned in America!!!!
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an import alert for Kinder Eggs, because they are a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object imbedded in it.
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/highlights/kinder_eggs.xml
FFS. Twinkie wrappers have “non-nutritive objects” inside; Twinkie bars.
Look at the date. Issued in time for April Fools’ Day?
Kinder eggs really are banned in the US, as a choking hazard. Customs there confiscated about 25,000 last year from incoming travellers apparently.
“Plates could well state to move on this issue soon…”
Typo Guido
I think you mean start instead of state.
Might be Pirates
or Pilates
Fucking good stuff. Why should I pay for her?
You’re a serf.
Let’s not hold our fucking breath for Davey Boy to do a damn thing about it though. My cat’s more right wing than him and PBUH he’s been dead 10 years now.
Well done Guido!
Pam
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I wouldn’y think twice about putting a pile of cack in Brown’s mouth if it shut him up
Gordon Tweets:
#Fife Orange where the sun don’t shine
Earth calling Sarah Beard. Earth calling Sarah Beard.
Nobody gives a fuck about you. Nobody ever did. You are irrelevant. Go away.
People follow sarah’s tweet out of interest to find out what she will do next – being in the same place as Salvatore Mundi doesn’t seem to be on the list.
We also need to find out who appointed these people and ensure that they are removed from the management structure.
Should be a crime to psy for full time trade union officials with taxpayers money.
Why do trade union members pay their weekly/monthly dues?
So Bob Crow doesnt have to get a proper job?
No fear of that, the ignorant fuckwit is otherwise completely unemployable.
i can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from TUC house now, such a sweet sound as i have ever heard.
It is time to end the disastrous democratic experiment.
+++1
Amen to that.
Who do you think should be running things Tessa?
Great stuff guys!
I swear I’ll do time
Same old Tories
The leader of Islington council has demanded an apology from David Cameron after a speech he made claiming that Islington Council was cutting frontline services instead of the salary of its chief executive.
In a speech made last week, Cameron slammed Islington Council’s Labour leaders for slashing services while not lifting a finger on the salary of its chief executive – despite the council already cutting its chief executive’s salary by £50,000.
Cllr Catherine West, Leader of Islington Council said: “What David Cameron has said is a lie; we have cut £50,000 from our chief executive’s salary. As a PR man by trade Mr Cameron should understand the importance of getting his facts right.
“Unlike Conservative controlled Bromley Council, Islington is not closing a single Children’s Centre, even though our percentage cut is more than twice the size of theirs.
“We have found over £25 million of back office efficiency savings, but the truth is that the Government has cut areas of great need, like Islington, by more than twice the national average.
“What David Cameron said is simply wrong and he should apologise to Islington for misleading its residents.”
bollocks
Wasn’t Catherine West in Emmerdale?
I did not see it
By what demented standards is Islington an area of great need? Compared to where, Monte Carlo?
It’s in great need of vapourising beneath a cloud-burst nuclear bomb.
25 million of back office savings!! for how many years have they been committing that colossal waste??
Fuck, I missed one
Listen Day, you total fucking fuckwit – money was poured into Islington over several years, so there’s far more fat to lose there than Bromley, which was starved of funding because it is Conservative.
Now go and insert your fat head in a dead bear’s bum.
I went to a Merton parks meeting and they said they could jiggle shifts about and save £450K without any apparent change to park keeping…
and then the council published leaflet came through the door moaning about how they’ve been forced to slash important public services by the nasty tories like ‘our local parks’. Right….
We also have an empty sure start centre no one wants to go to and a mile away a newly built community centre which lets rooms out for free…(zumba teacher @ £3 per person making a killing), at a tax payer cost of £300K.
Meanwhile, how much of the
chief executivegeneral manager’s £200K paypacket got cut?And why is it so often failed lawyers that get to ponce off the public? Eh Ged? Blair?
It is ridiculous when MPs and Ministers are supposed to separate their expenses for purely party political activities from those associated with the constituency work but an employer has to pay the costs of a trade union representative who quite likely spends most of their time on what are effectively political activities.
Makes you wonder what the mugs who are members of unions pay their membership dues for until you remember the six figure sums the unions leaders are earning along with generous expense accounts.
MB – there is a huge difference between ‘earning’ and ‘being paid’.
Most people pay union fees so that they have protection (its like an insurance policy to protect yourself from bad decisions by numpties). I guess that you have never had a problem at work and have a great employer(?) For most people I guess and companies they act like a more effective HR department.
the reason that Ministers need to separate their activities is because as Libcon has just identified with GRAYLING, the relationship between ‘free’ assistance from a private sector operation and the future award of contracts is much much more lucrative
Over the years, whenever I’ve had ‘a problem at work’, I’ve either resolved it or resigned and gone to work elsewhere.
No union fees needed.
I’ve always quietly caught up outside of work with the person causing me trouble and kneecapped the fucker
About time!
And the fact that it took a blogger – on the same day that Andrew Marr (“Bloggers will never replace journalists”) was outed as a hypocrite – is icing on the cake.
Anyone who has used Prescott as a role model needs a super-super-super injunction.
How embarrassing.
nice to see that another non-job will soon be vacant (see ya later pilgrim) and I wont have to fund these lefties ….. now could someone do something about the tv tax for a socialist media octopus I dont watch/listen/read that I am getting threatened for?
Socailisim should be wiped of the map!
Time to slot a revolting protester !!
Get rid of your fuckwit name and learn to spell you moron
Jane Pilgrim is a fucking ugly c unt who wouldn’t last a minute in the private sector. She’s a useless Labour/union shill in an artificial non-job created by Blair and Brown to put hundreds of thousands of party cronies like her in high paying positions that enable them to go on staff jollies to Wagamama and John Lewis at our expense. Fuck the lot of them. They should start by doing lipo on the red faced c unt’s face and use the fat extracted to fuel a green energy car for her to get about in instead of getting taxis everywhere on expenses like she most likely does now.
Needed to get that off my chest.
You really must learn to say what you think. If you keep your emotions bottled up like this you’ll do yourself no good!
Yes, come on let’s have the full story.
Truth be told, I’d give it one though
Oh get over yourself, you and your frothing right wing smearers.
Jane is a trained Nurse, she is concerned about the impact of bonkers right wing ideology on Health and she is standing up and being counted.
Jane is an admirable Lady in so many ways. The fact she works for UNITE shows she cares about her members and the nursing profession. Not everyone who works for UNITE is a Labour shill. She is not a member of the Labour Party just a concerned citizen.
Jane, ignore the doubters. You are doing a fine job. They are only jealous.
Bollocks!
You are Mary McGuire and I claim my free bedpan
Excellent post. +1
I just read that.
I’m fucking speechless.
I wish you were. You don’t sound it.
If she’s a trained nurse she should be doing what we the tax payer pay her for. Nursing not political activism. She should do that on her own time at her own expense.
She is doing what the taxpayer pays her for.
You may not like the fact the taxpayer pays for her role but don’t blame her for that. Blame the system.
I, too, agree Unions and their members should pay for that role.
However I am not going to slaughter the character of a warm, caring, considerate Nurse whose only motivation is to make life better for her patients.
did she never consider that her wages which were taking money out of the NHS might be better used for patients then? Not once considered doing union stuff voluntarily to help society? Maybe she shouldn’t have lied about hearing something at a meeting.
Perhaps she meant to say that someone told her what was said at the meeting.
Without the people to deliver the overall service, both frontline and back office, then there is no NHS.
What matters is does Jane give value for money. Is she a caring professional. Does she make the NHS a better place.
On all I would state an emphatic YES.
When was the last time Nurse P worked on the wards then?
You know. The usual stuff – changing dressings, swilling out bedpans, passing out meds and keeping patient charts up to date.
My bet is that she said Goodbye To All That! decades ago and that her current professional development in nursing practice reflects that notion.
What does that have to do with anything ?
Jane’s career path has taken her in a different direction.
She is using her experience in other areas. Not every nurse is on the wards you know.
I just find this savaging of a caring professional by a rabid mob for simply expressing a view to be disgusting.
For god’s sake stop being so silly – she is nothing but a self serving marxist living her ‘dream’ in a squatters commune whilst she has her lips firmly attached to the tax payers teat.
She and her kind are trying to collapse the system and she is certainly not there for the NHS clients.
Your patronising claptrap answers are oh so typical of the self satisfied lefty jobsworths that infest so many of our public services – in fact your comments were so smug I almost assumed you were trying to wind people up!!!
So please go away and grow up and smarten up – you cannot fool all of the people all of the time and we are on to you and your kind!
So what if Jane is living her dream. Good for her. She is doing nothing wrong and providing value.
Not everyone in the Public Sector is a sponger.
You have been reading far too much Taxpayers Alliance propoganda.
Thanks mum, that was very good. I’ll see you on Friday as usual.
Get it right idiot. UNITE wouldn’t have her. She’s a UNISON shop steward.
UNITE/UNISON
Who gives a shit.
She is still a great person and you are a fuckhead.
There’s a Chinese dish called ho fun. It’s also what Hugh Bonne Villa had.
Nice one Guido. Thanks for helping me get rid of the vermin that destroys democracy. Meow!
I’m confused. Is it just Hugh Bonne Villa who got jiggy with Miss Rub & Tug or Ewon MacGrigor too? Also heard the name Davey Thrillfall of Shameless bandied about. Is it only one or all three of them?
I got three ‘oles mate
Bradford Council’s budget is “undeliverable” and will cause chaos for months to come, opposition leader Anne Hawkesworth has claimed.
The Conservative politician has accused the Labour and Liberal Democrat groups, which had the budget passed with support from Green councillors ten days ago, of shirking responsibility for making cuts…
Coun Hawkesworth has warned that the budget has left officers to find £14 million of efficiency savings in the coming year as part of the Changing our Council programme…
The rival budget drawn up by the Conservatives called for a £250,000 reduction in the Council’s subsidy of trade union convenors.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8904219._Budget_is_undeliverable__says_Bradford_Tory_leader/
…meanwhile…
The cost of hot meals delivered by Bradford’s Meals on Wheels is set to soar by 88 per cent.
Bradford Council will stop subsidising the service for vulnerable, elderly people from the end of this month.
It will save the local authority £250,00.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8880747.Meals_on_Wheels_costs_to_soar_by_88_per_cent/
Yup, that’s understandable as the cost of a good curry has gone through to roof lately.
This has been going on for years. I knew one SWP member who was a NALGO (now Unison) branch chairman in a London borough and was not only paid by the council for over a decade to do the job full-time but was also got increments and upgradings in line with people who were actually working. When he was finally voted out as branch chairman he complained that he no longer new how to do his original job.
“What David Cameron said is simply wrong and he should apologise to Guido Fawkes for misleading his right wing bloggers.”
The news just showed a couple of utter, utter idiots who’ve already started camping outside the abbey for the wedding. How fucking sad do you have to be to camp out in the cold for 4 days to watch people who couldn’t give a fuck about you?
You’re just pissed they beat you to it, now fuck off Earl Spencer
The Beeb was broadcasting from outside the Abbey this lunchtime. Has anyone told them it isn’t until Friday?
They better watch out that you know who doesn’t come along and chuck them out of their places!!
where else could she get a job?
She could do my job with her eyes shut.
Time for another female pm. I wish the goddess Priti Patel could just take over as leader. She’s not only fucking gorgeous but has a steely style that would destroy Labour. And with the double whammy of an asian woman as leader, Labour would be left completely lost and clueless on how to attack the government. On a side note, isn’t it eternally ironic that the supposedly progressive Labour party have never had a female leader?
how about one thats a Conservitive first?
Ps Pritti is top totty
Priti is a Cameronite wet. No question she’s a decent looker – and if rumours are true can turn a few tricks – but these are not prerequisites of a good Con leader
louise bagshawe is much more eminently shaggable IMHO
I am working on it but the sexist patriarchy is putting so many obstacles in my way
Who are you calling a hatchet ?????
Quite so. The usual term used to describe godawful nurses is Battleaxe. Just ask Hattie.
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Just started my social networking journey. It’s going to be fun.
Don’t mention Jane Pilgrim. She has been granted a sBUPA-injunction.
Really when? & do you mean THE Jane Pilgrim who taking our shilling whilst on union activities & lives in a big house AND who has her own firm propergating nonsense which apeesr to use hospital staff to promote its activities which are rubbish by the way
Can I be on the next series of Strictly Come Dancing? I need to improve my public image and this seems to be a good programme to show everyone I’m human. Please.
OK. We have arranged for Fanlight Fanny, the frowsy nightclub queen, to be your partner. Kenny Ball will provide the musical accompaniment
2 premiership players houses were burgled at the weekend.Ryan Giggs had 10 premier league medals ,4 champions league medals,5 FA cup medals and 1 super cup medal and 70 Welsh caps
Robin van persie had a DVD player and toaster taken.
Well the first burglar must have been a complete idiot to take all that useless rubbish. At least you can use a DVD and toaster.
At least the dvd and toaster will be useful for him.
@U Termison, kindly explain how going on “staff safaris” to Wagamama and John Lewis at taxpayer expense helps patients in hospital? And why did she use an image of a senior hospital executive on her private consultancy website without his permission? And once you’ve provided a sufficient explanation for both, fuck off and die.
Don’t tell me you haven’t had a recurring dream where you’re in a hospital bed you wake to find Jane Pilgrim squatting over your face using your nose as a clitoral stimulator?
We have already established that UT was my mum.
Tony and I regularly used super-injunctions but the press was under our control in those days.
If this Jane Pilgrim is so concerned for the welfare of her fellow staff she could do the decent thing and leave unite and join the Royal collage of nurses and act in a professional manner-well the weather is nice anyway.
I haven’t thought of doing a collage of Nurses…
thanks for you post.anyway it is a good news
Amen.
Oh! Dear those who throw stones, the silly bitch should have kept her mouth shut bet she’s now wishing she had.
In the Lansley world government has no powers to direct hospitals to do anything other than through output based contracts that do not specify inputs at all. If the provider wants to buy its chief executive a porche and employ full time TU officials they can do so. The same will be true of Serco, Capita and other independent providers of NHS services. The only solution is direct govt intervention in the affairs of independent organisations – very conservative. Well done.
I am surprised that on a site like this so many people seem to be ignorant of how the policy is supposed to work.
That’s nothing. I hear there is a political party which pays its Chairman a cabinet level salary from taxpayer funds.
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politicians unions are all dirty rotten filthy scoundrels who milk the system for all they can keep Labour out of power and scrap ALL THE MEAN TESTING when it comes to benefits as people take their cash out of banks and bring in universal credit which is not means tested.