Labour HQ Redundancy Email – There’s No Money Left
From: Iain_McNicol
Subject: *Confidential: Message from General Secretary
Date: 14 June 2012 14:17:58 GMT+01:00
To: All_Staff14th June 2012
Dear All,
Throughout the far reaching review of our party organisation which Charles Allen and I have undertaken, I have tried to keep everyone updated as we have progressed. We have learned from what you and many others have told us – to understand what has worked and what hasn’t worked and what we need to do to make us a winning team again.
The review has emphasised the need for us to listen more to the electorate, to change our organisation and place more emphasis on grassroots, to have more dialogue with and motivate our activists, members and supporters, to give them the training and tools to win.
In November, I announced a new structure designed to modernise our organisation and address the issues raised through the review. Each of the Executive Directors reporting to me has been asked to work on plans to optimise our organisation, in order to make us more efficient, refocus and re-energise our work in critical areas and to strengthen and professionalise our operations.
All of this must, however, be achieved against a backdrop of the financial challenge we are all familiar with.
The Executive Director’s proposals will be finalised in July and will be presented to the JTUC as per the Terms of Reference, sent to you by the JTUC on 24th May. However, on a number of occasions I have been asked by the JTUC and others whether we would offer a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS). For obvious reasons this is something I have been reluctant to contemplate but the management board and I have concluded that this is now what we need to do.
The VSS will be available from the 14th of June and applications are invited from any member of staff who may be interested in applying. The terms offered will be those described in the Staff Handbook and confidential quotations will be made available, without commitment on either side, upon request. Would anyone seeking a quotation please contact Emilie Oldknow. Having received a quotation, anyone wishing to apply should arrange to meet with their Executive Director. The scheme is voluntary on both sides. Please understand however that applications for Voluntary Severance are not guaranteed to be accepted and that the Executive Directors and I will be the final arbiters. We will seek to ensure that all applications have been responded to by 27th of June.
The objective of all of us is that the Party should be a “one term opposition”. To achieve this we need to make changes which are sometimes painful but necessary like those I’ve described above. I know this is not easy, but if we are to show people we are serious about cutting the debts of the country then we must also cut the debts of The Labour Party.
As always, I am very happy to receive feedback or any questions you may have. If you wish please drop me an email, telephone or leave a message at the office and I will get back to you.
Executive Directors will be holding meetings with their teams in the next 24 hours to discuss this.
Yours
Iain
run out of other peoples money eh?
no discount shopping cards are limited these days
So David Brent shows some teeth?
How can they run out of money, they still have the “Union modernisation fund” to lean on. Just ask the unions for the money, they are happy to clean it of it’s origin trail.
Message from Douglas:
Thank you very much to everyone who voted on Guido’s website to help decide which Bill I should present to Parliament.
The clear winner – a Bill to withdraw from the European Union – will be formally presented in the Commons this coming Wednesday. I will then publish the formal Bill, so that even if the Bill makes no further progress at this time, no MP can pretend quitting the EU is somehow not possible!
Politics is too important to be left to politicians. Thanks to Guido and his co-conspirators, we have shown that the priorities of those in SW1 can be set directly by the people they clam to represent.
Thanks
Douglas
They certainly used a lot of waffle, fluff and bullshit just to say they are laying off staff. I supose it mkes theauthors feel better because they sound caring an concerned but i doubt the recipients will be taken in by it.
Seems to be the current trend to use 1000 words when 2 would do.
Reminds me of something Shakespeare once said – something about a piss-up in a brewery?
I find that statement about 2 words where one will do to be absurd, contrary, doubtful, dubious, faint, implausible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, not likely, out of the ordinary, outside chance, questionable, rare, remote, slight, strange, unbelievable, unconvincing, unheard-of, unimaginable and untoward or even unlikely.
That never happens in Parliament.
There’s no money left.
>As always, I am very happy to receive feedback or any questions you may have.
Stop stealing money from people who work and giving it to people who don’t work.
Just a suggestion….
“the need for us to listen more to the electorate” and what about action?
“There’s no money left”
Hear Hear
Can I nominate both Eds for the VSS
Hear Hear (got the right target this time – I’m so incompetent, I should be in the shadow cabinet!)
Plus, Hattie, Yvette, Jack D.Watson, Vaz,Bryant,i could go on, and on !
Run the party like you ran the economy.
Take it only the grunts need apply?
If only they knew what grunts were….
If it says ‘confidential’ why is it posted on the internet?
Theresa May installed the spying equipment on the internet….. oh wait, she said it only reads to and from information, not the actual content.
Labour hoping this would be buried by Cam at Leveson?
Spot on- a good day to bury bad news.
LOL
Does LOL stand for
Lots of Louise ?
Lots of Loutishness?
Lots of Lying ?
( I can relate to the third one ).
Lots of lay offs, permanent ones.
I cant believe an enquiry into the hacking of minor celebs phones, should have resulted in past and present PMs being cross examined on TV. Nobody cares, why should personal texts be made available to the public ?
Its cuts cuts cuts! The times not right. They’re cutting too deep too quickly etc etc
They are increasing spending too far too fast.
It would appear that basic literacy is not necessary for appointment to high office in the Labour Party.
good day to bury bad news
But how can this be right. Is it not Ed Balls’ policy to borrow and hire?
Surely Ed Bollocks would advocate more spending. They all keep their jobs, simple.
haha the tories must be on the run as yet another labour story makes the headline …… Dave telling Leveson that his government has a reputation for treating people fairly – he’s fucking mad and a liar and should resign now – criminal that he is!!!!
Calm down, dear.
You want a criminal anonymong? Look no further than the mu.*r.*d.*e.*r.*.o.*.u.*.s Leiber party. They are the real criminals, bre*.king ne*a.rly every law of the land.
Why don’t you eff off & change Milibandwagon’s nappie. C.R.E.E.P.
you really do get excited don’t you
Walks, talks and quacks like austerity to me !
Why don’t they just borrow more money ….
Or better still pick the fruit off the magic money tree that they believe in so much.
Sounds par for the party.
Instigate a New Executive
Appoint New Executive Directors- pay rise
Erect Executive Directors Teams- pay rise
Now there are too many overpaid chiefs to compliment the excess of overpaid indians already present.
Sounds like a money saver.
Racist!
You can’t say ‘Indians’ in a negative context.
How much does Ian McNicol earn?
Take it as red / read
Do y’all know ” Dallas ” is comin’ back as a brand new remakebut starrin’ all the ole timers like me .
Yes indeedee the likes of Sue Ellen , Bobby , ( and whatever his wife was called — Victoria Principal i think ) and of course the goggeous lush Sue Ellen not to mention Cliff Barnes and possibly Ray Krebs the slightly mad half brother .
But as they will be the original actors they will all now be the wrong side of 85 and in their Zimmers . Still people in the States say it is the same old deviousness but actually quite good .
I bet Sue Ellen has aged gracefully though — now she WAS a looker!
how thick are your glasses ?
What’s this? Labour having to cut back and accept a measure of austerity? Ed Miliband must be wondering how Cameron will play this at the next PMQs.
They are up to their neck in debt. The Labour Party will never be able to win an election in the age of austerity if they cannot sort out their own mess.
I always wondered how bullshit was written.
Labour in debt ? Surely they should be spending more then to get out of it ? So they keep telling the govt
Well it’s the ugly face of capitalism, innit knowwharimean?
“….show people we are serious about cutting the debts of the country”
Jesus Christ Alfuckingmighty. McNicol actually wrote that with a straight face.
Ha bloody ha
Ideological cuts!
Tony Robinson could lend them a few quid. Taxpayers pay his salary.
a person said to me that Labour party in uk are evil & that only stupid people vote for Labour as they are not socialists but liars like mick wallace td in ireland another socialist hypocrite
Labour are not job creators they are job wasters.