If you are holding a cup of tea or are about to take a swig of something stronger, Plato suggests that you put it down before continuing:
"According to a copy of the organisation’s latest annual report and accounts, John Hirst, the organisation’s chief executive, received between £195,000 and £200,000 in pay and bonuses in 2008/9.
The figure is a 25 per cent increase on the £155,000 to £160,000 "pay equivalent" for Mr Hirst in 2007/8. Mr Hirst had joined midway through the previous financial year in September 2007.
The remuneration package – which includes salary, performance pay, overtime and other allowances – is more than the £192,414 salary paid to Gordon Brown this year. Mr Brown receives £130,594 in Prime Minister’s salary, and £61,820 as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Seven other directors received pay rises of between 3 per cent and 33 per cent. The biggest rise went to Nick Jobling, the Met Office’s chief financial officer, whose total salary jumped by a third to up to £100,000. Campaigners said the payments were “jaw-dropping”.
The large pay rises for the management of the Met Office came despite a series of widely criticised forecasts, including a warm winter in 2009/10 last October..."
Plato, try this site for bird feeders and food.
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Recommend Niger seed for the Gold Finches (special feeder) Black sunflower seeds for the Greenfinches. Peanuts will bring woodpeckers esp in the spring and House martins nests have worked really well for me
Great stuff - many thanks! Other readers will wonder what they've missed in my post :D
ReplyDeleteEnhanced pay for bad performance? That's a novel idea!
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ReplyDeleteSaw your link on WUWT re. The Times having to withdraw that global warming ad. Might be worth flagging it to James Delingpole - looks like a candidate for his DT blog.
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Something's up with PB.com? Can't seem to access it.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, managed to get into work - but not staying long! Snow not too bad in the eastern 'burbs of London, but was pretty heavy in the northwestern parts of the cpaital! Most Tubes and buses running - for the moment.
And I've thought up a "cool" name for this cold snap: The Curse of Copenhagen!
WUWT now has an article on the Times having to change an ad. due to complaints to the ASA.
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Seen the WUWT article now, thanks. Well - it's a start.
ReplyDeleteThe "Curse of Copenhagen" is good - seriously that will teach them for organising these do's in December in places prone to blizzards and Arctic blasts. After Mexico 2010 - Bermuda? Goa? Somewhere the "non-warming" cannot easily catch them on the hop, anyway.
I think this tomfoolery is perfectly apt for a government that doesn't know what day it is.
ReplyDeleteLook also at the revamping of BBC Radio5 - moving to Manchester, flying people in to work there, changed the length of programmes but not altered the salaries of the misfits who run the shows.
It is absolutely correct that we continue to pay over the odds for shit.
Get rid of new stasi and the bbc at the same time.