Exclusive: Lord Patten’s Two Day Weeks
Guido can reveal that during the first six months of this year Lord Patten turned up to his BBC office on average just two days a week. Between January and July £110,000-a-year Patten attended his Great Portland Street office on just 56 days. The BBC have told Guido that Patten is expected to work on Beeb business for three to four days a week, and is required to be on call seven days a week. Overall twelve-job Patten was recorded as working for just 78 days during the period, with the BBC noting that 22 of those were merely attending the odd meeting or answering phone calls from home.
You can bet he’s putting in a lot more hours in now…
I suspect that soon Patten will be working zero days per week at the BBC.
Two full days a week. They will be sending children down chimneys next.
The trouble is, that there are many more government scandals than BBC scandals.
No point in the Government stepping in.
That nice Mr. Murdoch is my favourite. (The young or the old one, either will do)
At least the current Government dont have anything to worry about, by the time we have gone through all Tonys “scandals” we will all be 6 foot under.
Almost everybody alive today will be 6 foot under since he saw fit to stick 100 year disclosure bans on everything.
All politicians are, by definition, perpetrators of an ineptocracy.
And happily, here is the defintion:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ineptocracy
Rejoice! Rejoice! Plebs’ cost of living through the roof! Cartel of energy supply companies threatened with being called naughty!
You gotta laugh at the government moaning about energy companies ripping-off customers the day that E.ON issues a profits alert which sends its share price tumbling.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20308816
The press is reporting that Patten knew in advance of the programme’s airing.
This raises the question as to why he did not at the very least discuss with Entwistle the veracity of the item bearing in mind that the whole saga from start to finish was an overtly political attack thinly veiled as an unbiast factual report.For that non decision alone he should be fired as well.
Conor Burns MP said on The DP yesterday that the McAlpine affair was politically motivated.
At least someone is prepared to state the bleedin’ obvious.
Because it was such an overtly political attack on the Tories he, particularly, could not be seen to be trying to suppress it. Imagine if news got out that an Ex-Tory big-wig had suppressed p*a*e*d*o allegations against the Torys?
That would be seized on by the likes of Tom Watson. The fact that the allegations were a load of shite would never have come to light. All that would definitely be known is that a Tory suppressed allegations. And why would he do that? To protect p*a*e*d*o Tories of course.
He, more than anybody, had to let it run.
When Patten lost Bath, the cry went up “Tory gain!”.
Good point – your moniker says it all.
WTF do we do however to get shot of these slanderous barstewards?
To be fair his Political bedfellow Edward Heath did impliment a 3 day week for many of the little people back in the day.
I thought it was the unions that implemented a three day week.
.. because they wanted Stalinist Socialism, and Heath didn’t want to play, but didn’t have “Father’s” backbone and iron will.
Patten is definately a man who should spend more time with his dog and his club.
I suspect his wife could do with less time with him as could the city.
I think you have it in a nutshell, that just illustrates how the management in some areas has become a comfortable club.How did the chap who has stepped in to cover for Entwistle get anywhere, he sounds like a right oaf !
Apparently he’s a good runner. And from what I’ve seen, that’s about his only qualification for his temporary job.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/acting-bbc-directorgeneral-tim-davie-spends-first-day-setting-out-his-credentials-for-taking-the-job-fulltime-8306786.html
….. nausiating footage him arriving at BBC tieless and carrying a cup of coffee????
Totally unprepossessing…..
Cup? Styrofoam bucket, like all the oiks use.
and “precious”….
Troughing Tory Twat. Boaz.
If he then gets a half million payoff then I’m sure he’d be pleased about that.
Does his pension pot not take the payout to £1.327 MILLION????
Lord Patten signed off the £1.32m severance package with MPs from all parties saying he should go:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231646/George-Entwistle-rewarded-failure-pockets-450-000-salary-877-000-pension-BBC-pay-off.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Nice pay-off, if you can get it….
Just wondering … is his pension based on his 53 day fuck-up or the position he held before that? Anyone know how much difference that makes to pension?
He’s worked for the beeb for some years…however, surely the scale of his pension would be related and massively increased by his final salary, ie that of DG after only those short days in the role????
He’ll never need to work again. Thank fuck.
23 years with the BEEB – you would have thought that in that time he had sussed out the culture and his enemies.
2 days a week with 3 hour lunch breaks
What an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon
If only we could all work in public funded jobs..
I find it staggering that the BBC think it’s appropriate to pay Entwistle 12 months pay instead of his contracted 6 without consideration about where the money comes from. Just a typical public sector mindset – never mind plenty more where that came from. I’m sure he has a fantastic pension as well
The BBC Pension Fund is top of the pots
Perhaps Entwistle might like to donate his pay-off to Children In Need, which the BBC is currently urging the public to support.
Or put it back into the pot so that the ‘cuts’ don’t lead to such sloppy journalism.
Children, I’m a poorly bear but if you stroke my furry legs I’ll grow big and strong.
Ho Ho Ho. Children in Need and the Beeb is rather ironic in view of the Savile affair. Much like they used to constantly promote Northern Rock.
Of course CoN is run by past Labour government advisors don’t you know!
That’s right – it was only 3000 licence payers’ annual contributions down the pan.
Stop watching the tele and stop paying tele tax.. Withdraw your support for these public sector twats and see the edifice crumble. I have
It worked in Australia.
This is a disgrace and i hope will be well and truly investigated over the coming weeks, how on earth can anybody be given that sort of payoff when he was incompetent. Another illustration of the BBC way of thinking.
There are 650 jobbies in the HoC for starters goodness know, then is the HoL, platinum pensions to boot, lots of holidays, the vast majority of mps have their seats because they are considered safe seats, jobbies for life or until they are found out doing the naughty bits (fiddling, sexual shenanigans and other such activities) or they fall out of favour with their party bosses.
You should see my solid platinum pension, and a lordship to boot. In place even if I leave tomorrow.
Don’t be disgusting
He has to resign.
Or better be sacked.
It beggars belief that he can still be in a job.
Cameron approved his appointment. Probably because he was one of the assassins that stabbed Mrs Thatcher in the back.
No problem in approving the appointment at all, he should be good at the job, considering his previous career. But there should be some way of ensuring people work the hours they are paid for.
His previous career?
As an elitist globalist, EU apologist and former commissar, Euro membership advocate and of poll tax infamy?
He also worked for the election of the Liberal mayor of New York against the conservative, Willam Buckley.
Yep Patten’s about as conservative as Call Me Useless-Heath mk.2.
Being a parasite is different from having a career.
Andrew Gilligan for new DG.
Alistair Campbell
That’s it!
The real expression among the boys is
It buggers belief
I know what I am talking about
Diddly poo and guacamole to you all from Central Asia
I am getting filthy rich while you all clear up my poo…
You’re taking the words out of my mouth.
: David Cameron reveals squeezed middle: http://twitpic.com/bctiot
Time this merry-go-round of jobs for parasitic troughing bastards like Patten came to an abrupt halt.
+100 (and you forgot to include ‘utterly incompetent’)
Laughably, the incompetent oaf sits on the pretentiously named ‘Global Leadership Foundation’ an organisation which ‘works to promote good governance around the world’.
They should have looked at Patten’s shambolic career to date, before giving the clown the nod.
But one suspects ability and actual achievement rate for very little, when the sinecures are handed out to yes men like Patten.
On the subject of troughing bastards, did you see the article saying several children of Labour MPs are up for safe seats . Will Straw, Euan Blair, and Harriet Harmon / Jack Dromeys son. God help us all.
Don’t tell me Mrs Dromy and Harmaman have copulated and produced something in human form that will be voted for, e uck.
Our hereditary principle puts the Royal family to shame.
These jobs are given by patronage by the prime minister of the day, I am not really sure that they even have to know anything about the the industry they are appointed to lead, like a lot of non-executive directors of public companies, they are just invited to join, take their gelt, appearing at a few company meetings they are supposed to represent shareholders, Hmmmmm
Its a bit like paying Jordan to open your supermarket .
Jordan, that’s a river isn’t it?
Child abuse dont be conned by tory shit pushers.
Hello, Schnorbitz, you’ve been a bit quiet of late – leaving Hattie to do all the talking on this affair.
Why?
Too cowardly to stand up to Labour’s chums in the Beeb? Or maybe to David Potter who bankrolls the BIJ and… Labour?
Do tell…
I thought Ed looked really odd at the cenotaph, i couldnt help remembering nicola Murray practicing walking on,” in the thick of it”spot on.
So the Labour Party is homophobic now? I missed that meeting.
So did I
Err am I still Predident?
I heard on Toady that, in order to speed up the process to find ‘wistle’s permanent successor, the Trust will just be ‘making a few phone calls’ to chums and such like, rather than a ‘long, drawn out’ process.
That’s the BBC Trust depicted in today’s Telegraph thus:
“Lord Patten made the deal after a conference call with lawyers and the agreement of two members of the BBC Trust’s remuneration committee. They were Diane Coyle, the vice-chairman of the trust and a former government economist, and Anthony Fry, an investment banker.
“Mrs Coyle is married to Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s technology correspondent. She is paid £77,005 a year to work two and a half days a week for the BBC Trust and since last year has also acted as an unpaid adviser to Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary. She declined to comment yesterday.”
If you pay your Licence fee, you are a tool.
Do Britain do courses in corruption? I feel in need of a refresher.
Indeed – in the real world recruitment is a competitive process open to all comers and the best candidate selected following an exhaustive set of interviews, scrutiny and verification of CV, psychometric tests and whatever else is deemed necessary for selection of the right candidate. This lot just get on the phone to a couple of their chinless mates and see who’s free – no wonder the upper echelons of public service is so stuffed with mediocrities
In the real world, at the highest levels of recruitment, there is no open competition. Headhunters are employed to identify and poach ‘talent’ from other companies. A pool of (say) three potential candidates are identified and invited to apply. And that’s it.
It seems like the BBC just cuts out the headhunter and two of the three candidates.
‘Hi, Sebastion, Toby here – fancy a job as Head of Commissioning at the BBC..?’
BBC directly subsidising Labour.
Public Enquiry immediately (copyright E.Milliband)
Time for a mass campaign of non-payment of the licence fee.
Instead of sacking incompetents, the BBC simply shifts them to another department.
Ridiculous!
Perhaps she reads her best seller Sex, Drugs and Economics to him.
Oh what a surprise, another Labourite working for Al Beeb.
The time has come when political affiliations or work for political parties should prevent work for the bbc, that is a disgrace that 1) she is paid so muc and 2) that she works for a Labour MP as well, how can that be allowed to happen ?
Can’t we get a Pole to do the job? It would be cheaper. NO I don’t mean a Miliband either. Or perhaps Michelle Obama, she is foreign and black?
And a damn sight prettier than General Patten
Patten is the one on the left.
Patten slept his way to the top – in his case, literally.
Re: “If only we could all work in public funded jobs”…..Get a job in starbucks then dear its an easy application form.
Lol, the difference dear is that the public choose whether to spend their money in starbucks or not – but i’m sure you understand the difference
The BBC radical overhaul is well underway. The loyal staff clearly need a morale boost at this difficult time.
I propose that the Licence Fee should be increased to £290 per year from January, 2013, so that we can double their salaries and pension benefits.
Agreed. I don’t pay it anyway and the higher it is the more people will refuse to pay. Starve the beast.
I repeat that I have no plan B for the shambles known as the UK economy.
FTSE 100 5727.02
Down
-40.25 -0.70%
We’re doomed I tell you.
Pound up against the Euro. He’s doing better than Rumpey.
Compared to Greece, Spain, Italy and France, we’re laughing.
If only we had joined the Euro. Then all our problems would have been Germany’s.
Pretty much every other index on the planet is down since Obama was re-elected. That would be Osborne’s fault would it?
Anyway, back on topic….
All together now 1-2-3
Let’s all go short on the FTSE chaps.
BLACK HOLES GIDEON, BLACK HOLES.
(And I don’t mean the appendage below Flabbott’s belly)
Get us out of Europe now then we can fuck off Abu Qatada. Why do we put up with this shit ? Fuck Europe,
there is an upside to Abu staying here – it serves as a permanent reminder and warning of the cretins we have in our midst
Don’t you mean the cretins than run the country?
I blame the voters.
In case you haven’t noticed, we can’t vote for the cretins who run this country. All we can do is choose which administrators of the dictatorship, we can allow to follow their instructions / directives.
Europe is wonderful and we should very much stay in it. Jolly good value at nineteen billion a year. And what of Quatada? His security is only going to cost £5million every year. Why, I only need to sack an extra 150 or so police officers to save that kind of money and Quatada’s security is fully paid for what what!
Spiffing!
Toodle pip!
PS: remember to vote Tory in 2015.
Seems to me old Abu is a marked man, I wonder what it will cost the taxpayer to protect him from having is throat ripped out?
I think I heard on Toady 10 grand a week, although quite how they come up with such a figure I have no idea.
We give the Toady Programme and other such BBC programmes their figures that they never question.
Our economic gravitas is worldleading in the media, and our spelling and grammar is also recognized.
We will be fined if we disobey the Court.
There’s nearly 60 million of us here in this country – a quid each should cover it.
I’m in
Patten is toast.
He’s made a whole meal of it.
Is Fabio Capello looking for a job at the mo?
Lots of discarded football managers around. Considering the parlous nature of BBC financial, editorial and data governance they should fit in comfortably – and induce more teamwork.
Patten delivered the shambles that is the PSNI, why did anyone believe he’d deliver a better BBC?
Everything Patten has touched in his ‘career’ has turned to utter shite very shortly after. He has form and lots of it, at being useless.
I bet our yellow friends in Bejing r laughing their cocks off
Could be that they pay him to stay away
As a sunbeam, he ain’t the brightest ray
And with all those managers to keep sweet
Who would want him tripping over their feet?
New DG ? Oh shit ,we thought you said new DJ !
CotD
Very good! Managers at the BBC are all like this idiot. No idea about good man-management, egos that far outweigh their ability, unprofessional, and totally unsuitable to be leaders.
Petition to scrap the BBC
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/40667
No. There’s no chance it will happen. I’m not letting the fecking Government get my address details etc. on yet another database.
Getting the Tallyban to modify the BBC buildings would be a better option.
On Toady, McNaughtie arranged a boxing match rather than do the slugging himself!
In the red corner was some ex-Beeboid called Harding. steeped in a BBC editorial career. In the blue corner was Trevor Kavanagh, Cheif Political Honcho of the Sun.
The red corner had the closing line of “That is an outrageous slur”!
The stinging remark from the blue corner was, ” The BBC in institutionally biased towards Labour and the lefty-liberal elite”
“What’s James Naughtie for Mummy?” !
Simon Heffer for DG!!!
Little wonder the twat looks so grumpy.
As he emerged from the bowels of the bbc the other day I thought for a split second that he’d morfed into teddy heath.
Fat pang should be able to cut a fantastic deal with weight watchers!
The Fire Brigade are starting to charge for moving grossly obese patients and corpses. They can use Fat Pang for a training exercise, preferably a.s.a.p.
abu qatada for directorator
Good idea! He ticks all the right boxes: effnic, Muzzie, hates England, loves getting lots of money from the English taxpayer. Ideal!
Shame he’s not a lezzer, too. A one-legged one. But never mind.
at least he is blick
Someone shuld make a programe about what goes on at the BBC maybe JR could play Patter, and del boy could play the personel officer.
Shut my eyes for a few monments and thought about it and laughed, Del Boy !!!!, don’t you think he might be too good and sack the bloody lot.
I try again, I shut my eyes and laughed at this – Del boy was more intelligent than you average BBC lefty time-server. Make it happen !!!
Please Guido think and look before you block.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of leadership.
Chris Patten
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/chris_patten.html#d5tTQJJf4JyjWtHI.99
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which worked with Newsnight on the McAlpine fiasco, was on the verge of collapse last night after editor Iain Overton quit and backers were urged to halt their funding.
The backers are all Labour supporters, of course.
Oxfam have given them some money, shy of £20,000, and the bloke who made the Psion Organiser seems to have been behind the charity that made a major donation.
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/fundingexplained/
I can’t see how Oxfam got value for other people’s money, but I’m no expert.
And to think when people give money they think it will be used to build wells or buy vaccinations etc
The acting DG’s appearance on sky yesterday reminded me of Acorn Antiques.Another winner from fat pang.
The Acting DG comes across like a typically incompetent junior estate agent
How dare you, we produced drama of consistent quality.
like The Weather Forecast – Dry but Wet
Pass the port old chap
Oh yesh…
More portwein
Itsh the right thing to do…
Being a busy, important bulls-hitter like Lord Chris requires fuelling on big lunches and dinners washed down with fine wines…and doesn’t it show!
BBC Climate Change “Specialist Advisers” revealed:
http://omnologos.com/full-list-of-participants-to-the-bbc-cmep-seminar-on-26-january-2006/
Hmm….the odd scientist among the subsidy-seekers and anti-humanist preachers.
Very odd scientists most of them!
A lot of rent seeking there.
This is another BBC scandal, of equal or bigger magnitude than the Newsnight screw up, but I’ll bet it is buried.
Tonight on Newsnight! We expose shocking behaviour behind the scenes of a much loved children’s TV show!
Tonite, by special request, we will be showing Cicciolina Berkow topless
And Squeaker bottomless (on a ladder, so you can see him)
To compete with our Nads…
Sorry, double booked again. I’m doing a karaoke strip at the Miners’ Arms in Doncaster tonite. Must go, just practising the contra-rotating double tassle swing at the moment.
I’ll have you know we have some very ‘
updown-market’ lap-dancing establishments in Doncaster these days – thanks to New Labour.Oi my luvver – don’t zee forget us West Cnutry lads
This kind of sinecure is not uncommon among former politicians and senior ‘civil servants’. This has been a national disgrace for years. Patten must go!
Who pays you to post this tedious shit? How much?
I’m genuinely curious.
Only 110 grand a year for two days a week? LOL!
Where’s Dave this morning? We need some more of his dynamic PC actions.
If I do everything my enemies want, they won’t hit me will they?
I’ve got inflation growth going again. Up to 2.7% in Octobet.
Aren’t I a Clever Cutter ?
Good.
Once inflation takes hold they will have no choice but to raise interest rates back to their historic norm (5-6%), and the farcical prices people still expect for houses will drop to sensible levels.
Chris Patten + a fat, greedy, pompous CNUT!
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2030/that_inquiry_in_full
What, you mean like this?
As the Area Resource Senior Executive, Head Of Local Expertise (ARSEHOLE) for the BBC; I think that this is wholly unrepresentative of the BBC.
1. Don’t look at the degenerates in their palaces, Watch the dead man.
2. The dead man DID tell tales….Plebs getting too close to the truth
3. Disinfo: Time to throw in a red herring, bbc to reveal high level nonce.
4. Don’t watch the dead man…we have a live man
5. The Live Man is a fake nonce
6. Discredits internet, nonce witnesses, whistle blowers, etc….
7. Pay off the ‘actors’ including Entwistle
8. Nonce business as usual and more power to the draconian state’s elbow
I learned everything from my hero and inspiration Kinnock. He showed me that with a minimum of talent and simply by staying half-awake it is easy to ransack the public purse.
We’re aaaaaaaaaaaaaalllll riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
Cruel to make a man with his medical condition sit down on cold, stone slabs.
does it bring tp mind ken clarke’s boast while chancellor of rectal fistitude?
ouch, i thought it was just the huge dinners
I demand a judge led inquiry into why the Chilcot Inquiry has not reported yet.
Would the Strictly Cum Dancing judges’ panel do?
whatever will become of Downton?
I’m simply gaging for one of Miss McBrown’s tweats, where is she, New York, Moscow, Tonbridge Wells? The suspence is killing me.
the suspenders are killing me!
Tom Watson the labour scum you cannot trust.
Voters of Corby and Northampton East.
I urge you not to vote labour. You will be voting for liars, hypocrites and thieves.
Nothing has changed from when Brown was in charge, nothing.
your generous description of the withdrawal-of-labour candidate doesn’t leave much scope for the competition
Where’s Nick Clegg at this time of national trouble?
Standing aside = keeping ones head down so as to avoid the flack caused by a situation you were previously responsible for but now are temporarily no longer accountable or answerable for. Normally used to ensure future career advancement is not untowardly affected.
Patten is the Tory Quisling that makes the BBC appear impartial.
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/tie-less-in-gaza.html
A full BBC pay-out? Not half!!
Another who treats his job like its a hobby.
As they say here in Wales :
Nice work if you can get it !
Two days a week? If he moved about a bit more, maybe he could shift a bit of that flab?
Doddle jobs for the nobs. When things go smoothly. But when the shit starts flying around the BBC, and sticks. The old geez will wish he hadn’t joined.
Patten never done a days work in his life either payed by the taxpayer or Conservative Party a fat useless @@@@
Same Shit. Different Day.