Ofcom are the publicly-funded telecoms and broadcasting regulator. How would you describe their performance over the last year? The year in which telephone-based voting fraud has been uncovered at the BBC and ITV worth millions of pounds. The fraud at GMTV alone generated revenue of £35m, peanuts compared to those involving Ant and Dec and The X Factor. However it was not, as you might think, Ofcom who discovered these scandals. Despite it being their primary purpose for existence, Ofcom only intervened once this chicanery had been exposed by journalists and the Serious Fraud Office had said it will investigate. So, the answer to how well Ofcom have performed ... pretty damn poorly in my opinion!
You might think, therefore, that those in charge at the publicly-funded regulator are paying the price for such woeful performance. Hah! The former chief executive, Stephen Carter, bagged £400k last year and has pocketed another £250k in only eight months this year, while on gardening leave! Ed Richards, a former advisor to the vile master criminal Blair and the new chief executive, has earned nearly £400k during the same period. Even Dominic Morris, who is Richards' office manager, received more than £200k. Kip Meek, Ofcom's chief policy partner (whatever that is) left last year and was paid £125k for five months' gardening leave. Does this strike you as good value?
Let's look at Royal Mail. While not strictly funded by the tax-payer, it is responsible for delivering a public service that every single one of us needs in our daily lives. Repetitive strikes, first class mail taking 3 or 4 days, more mail lost than ever before, second daily deliveries cancelled altogether, increases to the price of stamps, the list goes on. How much would you say the chief executive that has managed this debacle is worth? Well, Adam Crosier saw his remuneration rise by 21% to £1.25m, for a whole year!
How about the BBC? Most definitely publicly-funded and given the latest license fee negotiation, apparently all we can look forward to is repeat after repeat and the odd celebrity-based reality dross. Perhaps programming might be better if we weren't paying director-general Mark Thompson £788k and Jonathan Ross a staggering £6m per annum.
John Tiner, chief executive of the publicly-funded Financial Services Authority, saw his package increase by 14% to over £650k last year. I have written about the FSA's woeful performance previously.
Unfortunately, the list of unworthy cronies pocketing vast amounts of your money is only likely to increase under Gordon is a moron. In the Queen's speech last week he announced seven new publicly-funded bodies to be created in the new parliamentary session. Despite the Vile Master Criminal's 1996 pledge to consign them to the "dustbin of history", there has been a bewildering increase in the number of quangos under this government. There are now nearly 900 with 30,000 members costing the tax-payer a mind-boggling £340m every day, a stupefying increase of 60% in less than four years.
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
You might think, therefore, that those in charge at the publicly-funded regulator are paying the price for such woeful performance. Hah! The former chief executive, Stephen Carter, bagged £400k last year and has pocketed another £250k in only eight months this year, while on gardening leave! Ed Richards, a former advisor to the vile master criminal Blair and the new chief executive, has earned nearly £400k during the same period. Even Dominic Morris, who is Richards' office manager, received more than £200k. Kip Meek, Ofcom's chief policy partner (whatever that is) left last year and was paid £125k for five months' gardening leave. Does this strike you as good value?
Let's look at Royal Mail. While not strictly funded by the tax-payer, it is responsible for delivering a public service that every single one of us needs in our daily lives. Repetitive strikes, first class mail taking 3 or 4 days, more mail lost than ever before, second daily deliveries cancelled altogether, increases to the price of stamps, the list goes on. How much would you say the chief executive that has managed this debacle is worth? Well, Adam Crosier saw his remuneration rise by 21% to £1.25m, for a whole year!
How about the BBC? Most definitely publicly-funded and given the latest license fee negotiation, apparently all we can look forward to is repeat after repeat and the odd celebrity-based reality dross. Perhaps programming might be better if we weren't paying director-general Mark Thompson £788k and Jonathan Ross a staggering £6m per annum.
John Tiner, chief executive of the publicly-funded Financial Services Authority, saw his package increase by 14% to over £650k last year. I have written about the FSA's woeful performance previously.
Unfortunately, the list of unworthy cronies pocketing vast amounts of your money is only likely to increase under Gordon is a moron. In the Queen's speech last week he announced seven new publicly-funded bodies to be created in the new parliamentary session. Despite the Vile Master Criminal's 1996 pledge to consign them to the "dustbin of history", there has been a bewildering increase in the number of quangos under this government. There are now nearly 900 with 30,000 members costing the tax-payer a mind-boggling £340m every day, a stupefying increase of 60% in less than four years.
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
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