Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Some of you might have read the posts I've put on here about our crappy Northampton Borough and County Councils.

The sheer number of excessive salaries at a council branded the “worst-run in the country” by Conservative MP Philip Hollobone could not be justified.

Chief Executive of the Tax Payers Alliance, John O'Connell, said: "With Northamptonshire County Council in such a dire financial state, taxpayers will be shocked to learn that 23 employees at the council took home more than £100,000 last year.

“Despite many in the public sector facing a much-needed pay freeze to help bring the public finances under control, many town hall bosses are continuing to pocket huge remuneration packages, with staggering pay-outs for those leaving their jobs.”

County council workers' pay has been frozen for the 2018/19 year.
Currently, the authority is advertising for an interim head of finance at LGSS, a position likely to pay more than £100,000 a year.

A freedom of information request by the GMB union revealed the council paid £371,000 to DDL Consultancy, owned by the interim chief executive Damon Lawrenson, during 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Mr Lawrenson stood down via mutual consent last month.

Former chief executive Paul Blantern was given a golden goodbye of at least £95,000 when he resigned last October.

The figures mark Northamptonshire out as the seventh highest council in the country for paying wages over £100,000. Six of the top ten authorities were based in London.

fred is just a bloody-minded contentionist rather than a pacifist

And yes / no questions are beyond his capability so keep it simple when addressing him

Imagine going to the pub with Fred and asking him if he wanted a pint ... 2 hour rant and you would still be none the wiser when the pub closed.

Oi Fred , I think it's Friday today what do you reckon ?

Dil,

I feel dealing with you would be like hitting one's head against a brick wall.

Better to leave it to crumble by itself.

BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network in Britain, with the intention of shifting all customers over to IP telephony services by 2025.

The closure of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is part of plans by BT toward internet-based voice calls via a fibre network. As such it will be looking to close a chunk of exchanges.

Yesterday, Openreach wrote to its communications providers about the move. The broadband division will open consultation next month on the withdrawal of its Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) products, which are reliant on the PSTN.

Hey!

Have any of you noticed, that the 'Money AM Home Page' link at the top LHS of the page on here has now been split into two parts?

To the left of it is now 'MoneyAM' and a little bit to the right of that is 'Shares'.

So that's nice.



Notice how I can't show you the 'shares' image? This is because it is in white font and so you wouldn't be able to see it anyway.

More unexploded bombs found in Germany......hence the joke about British bombs are better : they don't go off !....(:((....(sorry...)....

Anyone seriously thinking about buying a new car (you can buy it from anywhere even if you might always have it serviced locally) would be well advised to save themselves several £thousands and do their initial searches through these people:

carwow.co.uk

My local Northamptonshire County Council has paid out £2.5m in redundancy packages in the past 12 months.

During the financial year 2017/18, when the authority was facing bankruptcy and being investigated by Government inspectors, the mismanaged authority paid out the colossal sum to staff.

However, the authority is refusing to disclose how many staff received payments and how much the biggest redundancy package was.

But we're on it! One can force the issue on this kind of secrecy so they won't be hiding this information for much longer.

It seems to me, this is one of the latest forms of corruption and is of course, highly linked to cronyism.

The state of the UK under tory rule.

Money for this and that to protect the elite and fellow travelers.

as opposed to corbyn's vision to screw anyone who has the ambition to work hard and profit through those efforts, impose CPO on whatever land comes to mind, let the unions run rife and ruin along the way ....... and of course to borrow, borrow, borrow to bankrupt the country yet again

Better than a lot of losing tory chancers, many who haven't done a days work in their lifetime, and are bankrupting the UK but at the same time moving their assets on to seemingly greener pastures.

is that so?
well i don't see that you have done anything for mankind either despite your supercilious diktats about what others should do
you're intrinsically a hypocrite

Years ago, an aunt of mine rang me.

She wanted to borrow £5k "because the tax man is pressing me and I think it is now getting very serious."

Now, I'd historically witnessed her take numerous sums of money from my granny. In fact, that's why I sussed out she used to visit the old lady. ie for a hand out - rather than to see how she was.

"No," I told her. "Because I think that would be the last I would ever see of it."

Haven't seen or heard from her since. I was obviously not a lot of use to her. I often wonder if she is still alive.

In my mind's eye, she is my own perfect definition of "a leftie".

When Corbyn becomes PM he will tax both you and Manuel out of existence.

He already has his little list.

Perhaps, Manuel may be able to get a job as waiter or pot-washer again.

Though, I wouldn't tip him.

-=-=-=-=

Manuel,

Ps

What diktats have I advanced or advocated?

I think. in general, I have only pointed to your follies of some of the ideas that you hold and try to believe in. (Substitution.)

Often, you seem to me to project your own fears and insecurities when you feel challenged.

We would all be better off if it were Corby that got a job as a waiter.

Forget the Tories , wtf has Corby ever done ?

Spying and terrorist sympathiser excepted.

You sound like you've got a few bob Fred.

Where will you stand when Corby comes for your hard earnt?

always fred (not just often) you come across as the supercilious hyprocrite

if i had learned that you had actually gone to lesbos or similar (as my son did) to distribute toys and the like to the children, or taken (illegal) immigrants into your own home and looked after them, or regularly spent christmas with the local homeless or even at the local hospice, then i would have respect for you

as you should know, you have to earn respect, and absolutely you have not

for myself, i do not look for it, though at least people who know me, know that i tell things as i truly see them