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Mar 30, 2018 at 11:03 AM | Uibhist a Tuath

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. By paying millions of peanuts, top posts have been filled by monkeys with a healthy appetite. They are still monkeys.

This malaise has spread to Charities. NGOs seem to have been developed for the sole purpose of peanut hoarders, because Taxpayers see little evidence of the millions of peanuts ever again.

From Wikipedia Alan Yentob ref Kids Company

"On 15 October 2015 Yentob and Batmangheldijh made a joint appearance before a parliamentary select committee investigating the charity's collapse. Their performance was widely described as disastrous. In the New Statesman, the political commentator Anoosh Chakelian said they were a "duo of epically proportioned egos" who made "as little sense – and as many accusations – as possible"[19]before the panel of MPs. In The Daily Telegraph, the parliamentary sketch writer Michael Deacon called their appearance the "single weirdest event in recent parliamentary history"[20] and wrote of "three solid hours of bewildering excuses, recriminations and non sequiturs". In the Daily Mail, the journalist Quentin Letts described Yentob as cutting a "mediocre, credulous figure" who failed in his "duty to resist 'dominant personalities'" such as Batmanghelidjh.[21]

Criticism from Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC)

The PACAC report heavily criticised Yentob. He was described as someone who condoned excessive spending and lacked proper attention to his duties. The BBC is also accused of poor leadership for failing to take action against him when he tried to make suggestions about the BBC's reporting of Kids Company.

See also
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Company

Mar 30, 2018 at 11:28 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Uibhist a Tuath

The evidence (imho) suggests that scooping random people off the street might be a better recruiting tactic. That "top people in their field" thing seems to reel in some quite astonishingly poor "talent".

I note that very few top posts in the public sector these days are filled by an autonomous headhunter mechanism - cronyism and accomplices seem to predominate.

Mar 30, 2018 at 11:15 AM | Registered Commentertomo

Mark Hodgson, Golf Charlie
You are forgetting that, in order to attract top people in their field you (aka taxpayer) have to pay them way over what most taxpayers consider reasonable recompense.

Mar 30, 2018 at 11:03 AM | Unregistered CommenterUibhist a Tuath

Andrew Neil

saying things that our gutless politicians and MSM allow to pass almost uncommented.

Mar 30, 2018 at 10:53 AM | Registered Commentertomo

The recurrent theme is the Rise of the Useless Idiots to a level that their incompetence destroys the very thing they were supposed to be doing, on a vastly inflated salary, that was all approved by their own Managers, who did not want to be shown up as incompetent.

It's not confined to - but is prevalent in - the public sector. I have seen this in the workplace several times at medium sized companies where recruiting policies were deliberately skewed to exclude those who showed any sign of traits (relevant skill, experience, track record of success) that might be valuable in the workplace and show up / present a challenge to the incumbents.

Mar 30, 2018 at 10:23 AM | Registered Commentertomo

golf charlie

Many thanks for the explanation of B Arkers - I read HHDTTG many, many years ago, but have forgotten much of what I then read, and B Arkers references have left me mystified for some time.

It's not just the NHS. Today on the BBC website:

'Unjustifiably high salaries' paid by some academies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43569932

"Some academy trusts in England stand accused of paying senior staff ''unjustifiably'' high salaries while front-line schools are starved of funds.

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee highlighted how 102 academy trusts paid some trustees over £150,000 a year.

And in two-thirds of cases where the government had challenged this, it had not been satisfied with the response.

The government said all trusts operated under a strict accountability system.

The committee's latest report on the finances of state-funded but privately run academy schools welcomed the first publication of an annual report on academy accounts.

But the PAC said: "Unjustifiably high salaries use public money that could be better spent on improving children's education and supporting front-line teaching staff and do not represent value for money.''

Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said academies needed to be held to account more effectively.

And part of this meant having access to transparent, detailed and timely information that could be judged in the same way the accounts of maintained, council, schools were judged.

Ms Hillier said: "More than two million pupils are taught by academies in England. The governance and financial management of these schools is fundamentally important to pupils' educational outcomes and future life prospects.

"If parents, Parliament and others are to hold them properly to account, it is vital they have timely access to transparent and detailed information.

"Excessive trustee salaries deprive the front line of vital funds. And it is alarming that, in two-thirds of cases where government has challenged individual trusts on pay exceeding £150,000, it has not been satisfied by the response.""

Just the same as the NHS then.

Mar 30, 2018 at 8:19 AM | Unregistered CommenterMark Hodgson

Mar 30, 2018 at 12:56 AM | MickJ

Harvey et al 2017 (co-authored by Mann) even provides a handy list of reliable sources about belief in Mann's Hockey Stick.

This will be very useful for those seeking about 97% cuts in Climate Science funding.

Mar 30, 2018 at 1:59 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

"because new turbines are bigger, more powerful, more efficient ..you could produce the eqt of about 2 gas power stations of new generating CAPACITY, if all of these aging winfarms were to be repowered"

Mar 30, 2018 at 12:41 AM | stewgreen

Have they made enough money to "repower" their "renewable" technology?

Mar 30, 2018 at 1:25 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

@Golf re "B Arkers " no not my credit
It is frequently referenced by someone else here
I was a big fan of the original HHGTG radio show.

Mar 30, 2018 at 1:00 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Mar 29, 2018 at 5:12 PM | golf charlie

Kenneth Richard made a few responses re. PAGES 2K to Mr Clarke and has now posted his own deconstruction of said study. Pop corn time.

http://notrickszone.com/2018/03/29/another-bust-pages-2k-global-reconstruction-fails-to-confirm-the-hockey-stick/

Mar 30, 2018 at 12:56 AM | Unregistered CommenterMickJ

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