Comments on: The Chancellor asks for a pay cut http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/ Conservative Party Candidate for Wokingham Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:06:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17465 James Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:31:40 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17465 A nice idea, but I rather think that HE would end up paying US... A nice idea, but I rather think that HE would end up paying US…

]]> By: Andy B http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17439 Andy B Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:46:36 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17439 This article is very divisive. Its tone from start to finish suggests that people should be discriminated according to their 'performance'. I would have hoped that the last 10 years had wiped away all attempts by people to use someone's disabilities (e.g. the inability to do one's job) as a stick to beat them with. Apparently not. Whatever next? Awards for people coming top? Trophies for the person who runs fastest? People being sacked for not doing their job properly? This is the thin end of a very unpleasant wedge. We should all applaud the actions of a government which puts employment equality at the heart of their policymaking. We must not discriminate against people who are useless! They are human too, and they have just as much right to screw up the country as the next person. ;-) This article is very divisive.

Its tone from start to finish suggests that people should be discriminated according to their ‘performance’.

I would have hoped that the last 10 years had wiped away all attempts by people to use someone’s disabilities (e.g. the inability to do one’s job) as a stick to beat them with.

Apparently not. Whatever next? Awards for people coming top? Trophies for the person who runs fastest? People being sacked for not doing their job properly?

This is the thin end of a very unpleasant wedge. We should all applaud the actions of a government which puts employment equality at the heart of their policymaking.

We must not discriminate against people who are useless! They are human too, and they have just as much right to screw up the country as the next person.

;-)

]]> By: David Hannah http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17389 David Hannah Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:42:57 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17389 Andrew Duffin, chance would be a fine thing, wouldn Andrew Duffin, chance would be a fine thing, wouldn

]]> By: NotaSheep http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17387 NotaSheep Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:04:08 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17387 As I said earlier today, not having seen your article yet: Just remind me Alistair Darling, what is your salary? What about your expense allowance? How much will you get to soften the blow when you leave Parliament? How large a pension will you be entitled to and how much will you have contributed to that pension pot by the time you retire? To be honest I don't think that a man who was made Chancellor because he could be no threat to the former Chancellor either intellectually or politically, whose lack of ability has been clear to all over Northern Rock, taxing Non Doms and economic forecasting, is in any position to criticise people who are competent, intelligent and hard working. Alistair Darling, you are a weak and ineffectual politician who like most of this Labour cabinet, including the Prime Minister, have been promoted way above the level of your abilities. As the economy crashes and burns around your eyebrows and the population realise that you and your Labour colleagues have screwed up this country's economy beyond what even I in 1997 believed was possible; then one of the few pleasures that will be left to many of us will be watching the verdict on this government be delivered by the people... As I said earlier today, not having seen your article yet:

Just remind me Alistair Darling, what is your salary? What about your expense allowance? How much will you get to soften the blow when you leave Parliament? How large a pension will you be entitled to and how much will you have contributed to that pension pot by the time you retire?

To be honest I don’t think that a man who was made Chancellor because he could be no threat to the former Chancellor either intellectually or politically, whose lack of ability has been clear to all over Northern Rock, taxing Non Doms and economic forecasting, is in any position to criticise people who are competent, intelligent and hard working. Alistair Darling, you are a weak and ineffectual politician who like most of this Labour cabinet, including the Prime Minister, have been promoted way above the level of your abilities. As the economy crashes and burns around your eyebrows and the population realise that you and your Labour colleagues have screwed up this country’s economy beyond what even I in 1997 believed was possible; then one of the few pleasures that will be left to many of us will be watching the verdict on this government be delivered by the people…

]]> By: Andrew Duffin http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17386 Andrew Duffin Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:54:29 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17386 Since Westminster Parliamentarians have agreed that 80% of their function can be outsourced to Brussels, I suggest they should now be paid 20% of whatever they got before that happened. This should serve to concentrate their minds wonderfully, as they now contemplate handing over all their remaining powers to the same foreign entity. No sovereignty = No pay. How could anyone argue? Since Westminster Parliamentarians have agreed that 80% of their function can be outsourced to Brussels, I suggest they should now be paid 20% of whatever they got before that happened.

This should serve to concentrate their minds wonderfully, as they now contemplate handing over all their remaining powers to the same foreign entity.

No sovereignty = No pay.

How could anyone argue?

]]> By: Dave Clemo http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17383 Dave Clemo Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:54:18 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17383 Whatever happened to performance related pay? It's easier to spend other people's money than your own It's easy to pass laws when you don't have to live with the consequences. Whatever happened to performance related pay?

It’s easier to spend other people’s money than your own

It’s easy to pass laws when you don’t have to live with the consequences.

]]> By: Cliff http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17381 Cliff Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:41:56 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17381 It is not just the city paying too much for poor performance, we the public are paying too much for poor performance in government. The tax take of this government is at an all time high and competence levels within government seem to be at an all time low. I cannot remember a time when faith in the government was so low and yet, our party does not have a massive lead in the opinion polls, we should be fifteen or twenty percent ahead but we are not. I wonder why this is. It is not just the city paying too much for poor performance, we the public are paying too much for poor performance in government.
The tax take of this government is at an all time high and competence levels within government seem to be at an all time low.
I cannot remember a time when faith in the government was so low and yet, our party does not have a massive lead in the opinion polls, we should be fifteen or twenty percent ahead but we are not. I wonder why this is.

]]> By: David http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17377 David Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:20:36 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17377 I would have thought that extending the idea of performance-related pay to even one member of the Palace of Westminister was a very dangerous one, given the huge difference in how much they work for their constituents. Someone will suggest that they should be paid sensible and equitable allowances next - and that would never do! I would have thought that extending the idea of performance-related pay to even one member of the Palace of Westminister was a very dangerous one, given the huge difference in how much they work for their constituents.

Someone will suggest that they should be paid sensible and equitable allowances next – and that would never do!

]]> By: Ian Evans http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17373 Ian Evans Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:42:47 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17373 I have to say that, for once, I totally disagree with you! Someone in such a position should not have a pay cut - he should get the sack. I have to say that, for once, I totally disagree with you! Someone in such a position should not have a pay cut – he should get the sack.

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17370 Stuart Fairney Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:06:32 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/02/16/the-chancellor-asks-for-a-pay-cut/#comment-17370 Darling is surely the ultimate "dead man walking" in political terms. Only Brown's unwillingness to concede his appointment was a disaster is currently saving him, but you have to believe at the first re-shuffle.... Darling is surely the ultimate “dead man walking” in political terms. Only Brown’s unwillingness to concede his appointment was a disaster is currently saving him, but you have to believe at the first re-shuffle….

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