Guardian Hits Hungry Hacks With Price Hike
Troubling times for the children of Kings Place, the pain is being inflicted at the bottom not the top. Not only are swathes of hacks getting the chop, prices are being hiked for the hungry piggies in the staff canteen as the subsidy on food and drink is removed. Writing to all staff, John Cornby, the Guardian’s Finance Director claims to “appreciate these changes come at a time when pockets are being squeezed” – the move will save the troubled paper £200,000 – on the plus side “healthy options such as muesli and toast will be served in the restaurant as usual”.
£200,000 is around a third of the editor’s pay package…
You would have to have a heart of stone not to chuckle.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I have a heart, it’s pickled right there – on my desk!
Hobsbawm came to Britain as a refugee from Hitler’s Europe before the war, but, as he said himself, he wished only to mix with intellectuals. ‘I refused all contact with the suburban petit bourgeoisie which I naturally regarded with contempt.’ Naturally.
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Indeed. Clearly the trend for desperate refugees seeking asylum in our fair and generous country, and then turning against the very people who gave them shelter is not a new one.
Yeah!… These days of course it tends to be the raghead fraternity, like Hookie Hamza.
How much subsidy does a constant diet of bile, envy and chips on shoulders require anyway?
But they are all in it together
Trouble is they’ll not sink together. When the Guardian goes under, all the hacks and hackettes will move over to the BBC. Christ, half of the bastards are there already.
Yes, but then they won’t be able to quote each other as ‘independent’ or a voice of reason.
The good thing is that anyone who has ‘Guardian’ on their CV is forever blackened in my eyes, and will never be worth anything.
It’s nothing to do with me.
Millionaire Ed expecting £40,000 courtesy of “Call me Dave”. Alright for some.
How can you ‘expect’ something you already have?
I am absolutely devastated about the Granaud feeling the pinch……..devastated [tee hee]……….devastated [ha ha ha].
We’ll have to have a whip round fir the poor sods!
*for* [sorry, I was so upset that I couldn't see for tears shedding down the screen].
Pity its doesn’t act on its own espoused political agenda, take the hacks round the back and shoot them!
You’re now unnecessary for the greater good.
Can we find a suitable Gulag?
Could Eric Hobsbawm have been the mystery Soviet recruiter of the Cambridge Five spy ring, I wonder? Maybe a bit young – but not impossible.
Someone snitched on him.
There are plenty of options that there may have been more than the Cambridge 5. The facts that remain is that 4 were discovered, and the other members (if any) are not going to come forward and admit treason. There is no golden rule that states there was only 5.
This is a favourite pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey for adults!
We should have winkled out people like Hobsbawm and given him a free permanent holiday to Russia, easy to be an apologist for Stalin, would soon change tune when a victim.
Likewise Miliband Sr.
There are plenty of options for sure. But at that level the spymaster would have to have had an unshakeable belief in the system, which Hobsbawm clearly had, and the force of personality to accomplish this over other highly opinionated intellectuals, not so sure on that one. Kimberley Cornish claims it was Ludwig Wittgenstein, who would certainly meet the second criterion. I do not see him regarding the Bolsheviks as perfect but we know he had to compromise with the Nazis over his sisters so I do not see it as impossible either.
John Cairncross is widely suspected of being a fifth man, he was identified as a spy in the 1990s, but the issue of indoctrination.
I wonder how many Hobsbawm quietly established since. If Hobsbawm did convert the 5 it really was almost as soon as he got there, which is either very difficult because he should’ve been monitored given his background, or very easy because he was otherwise an ‘unidentified’ radical and there was no watch on his activities.
I agree it would’ve been almost as soon as he got the job at Cambridge if at all.
Another Bletchley Park man. The one that passed the information which decided the Eastern Front. (Or alternatively, Hitler simply repeated his hero Napoleon’s error.)
Interesting point mog!
Pork chops all round.
Let them eat cack
Let them eat cock…uh..ah..uh..ah
Where are those pesky bailiffs when you need them ?
Milibandwagon answering pre-scripted questions from the ‘tards at their conference. What a soddin farce!
Price rises in the subsidised staff canteen? This is outrageous. i shall be cancelling my subscription immediately in solidarity with the workers.
How the hell has Rusbridger survived?
Guardian workers should go on strike immediately. But would anybody but the BBC notice?
Fucking right we would, where are we supposed to get our story leads?
“Guardian workers”? Now there’s an oxymoron.
From Guido’s Media Reader:
‘MP Calls for Inquiry Into Savile Row’ – Guardian
The Government should investigate traditional men’s bespoke tailoring?
I hope they can’t pin anything on me
It’s a stitch up.
Said a BBC spokesman, “We at the BBC knew nothing of his secret life as a Catholic. We naturally assumed that he was atheist in good standing, otherwise we would never have employed him. But it seems that he got up to some very questionable activities in his spare time.”
http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-savile-row.html
Different slant on the whole issue. The whole debacle depends on Savile being dead! Easy to attack someone who can’t fight back!
How much is the BBC going to pay out of our money?
Further alternative reading on the J. Savile story –
I prefer alternative reading, and not just the let’s hitch to the bandwagon:
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/jimmy-savile-predatory-rapist-or-sexually-active-celebrity/
Interesting questions to answer, including the questions that need to be asked – and Childline “rent a quote for a bandwagon” (self-)promoter Rantzen should answer.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got…’If it looks like or smells like shit, it probably is!
Under One Nation Labour everyone will be entitled to a bespoke handmade suit, not just millionaires with their £40k cheques
Does their staff canteen serve Halal food ?
Vegetarian lamb korma, your Ladyshit.
Also free B and B for your researcher for an additional fee.
200k is Chicken feed for me, I won’t be going on rations for writing my shit.
Judging by your neck, you’ve been gobbling too much turkey.
Thinking about it, what will poor Polly do if there are no more subsidised lefty vanity sheets around to pay her to shit out Gramsciian drivel?
I fear for her privileges. Those Tuscan pool boys cost money.
Would a FOI into BBC employees with a history of Guardian employment be entertained?
As the Guardian has about 2.6% of the national circulation then surely this figure should be representative of BBC employees who have dead tree press experience.
Or do I stand more chance of winning the Euromillions jackpot?
I just want the Beeb to get buggered over Saville; bin the TV Poll tax
Why not have a whip round ??
Andrew Mitchell?
LOL LOL LOL………
Sorry did not mean an Effing Whip Round !!
After next elections, Labour government will advertise lots of non-jobs in the paper, as it did when previously in government, to bribe the paper to write positively about everything labour, which then gets echoed on the beeb, obviously!
Just a tiny part of me is moist with sympathy.
Perhaps the BBC should buy more copies….. ?
Hang on there — they’ll use OUR money to save the Guardian!?
And the ”there’s a surprise’ element of that is?
See that a certain supermarket who’s name begins with “T***o” has posted
a large drop in profits today, is this just because ZanuLieLabor are no
longer in power as they were & still are I understand, strong supporters of
McMental & Co
In this case, it should be ‘whose’ not ‘who’s’.
This evening I am re-designing the walnut whip
No doubt the heavily subsidised BBC will subsidise them.
Arseholes.
The slow demise of that hateful rag is delicious.
I have a special bottle in the cellar waiting for the inevitable happy news.
Red, presumably?
Maybe they should be given 10% of the 4g licence sale.
Maybe even 50% if it allows the best in society to flourish.
Champagne of the socialist variety?
Why does the Guardian outsource its cleaning staff?
If it kept them in house it could easily pay them now, without waiting for legislation, the £17ph living wage its always banging on about.
But by hiring an evil profit making company, which does not have the best interests of the lowest paid in society at heart, it is prolonging and aiding the capitalist economy and punishing the most vulnerable and most ethnically vulnerable too!
Pretty radical stuff Bill. Hell, if we are going to start thinking outside the box like that, maybe we could go all the way and stop using esoteric offshore vehicles to avoid tax.
Just an idea.
Bourgeois scum. We socialist intellectuals know best – do as you’re bloody told.
You sound like one of those suburban petit bourgeoisie I hate so much.
Mind you, I look like a fucking Orc.
And I’m dead.
Has anyone bought any of my books yet? Come on, I’m dead now. The BBC and the Guardian have plugged me to buggery, so get down Waterstones you ungrateful little falsely concious fuckers.
Doubtless my delightful Hobs-spawn will be fighting like cats in a sack over my considerable estate. You don’t want them going short, do you?
It’s a disgrace that they’re going to take away the subsidy and make me pay full price for my prosciutto crudo ciabatta!
Don’t they understand that subsidizing things is how our world works?
Don’t they read any of my articles?
Does anybody read any of your cack?
Don’t worry love – just fly over to your villa in Tuscany.
Please help is there any truth in the rumour that Jonah McMental has been
advising Armadinnerjacket on value of the Rial ???
Needless to say the Jonah effect is now in full swing with Rial plunging in
value against US$ every hour……….wonder why ????? LOL LOL LOL
Damn! Who will pay for my caviar-on-toast?
Let them eat cake!