Gag On This

My sympathies to the good people of Wales who, thanks to their local councils, have forked out (via their council taxes) around £32M over the last ten years on gagging order agreements in severance deals.

The Western Mail made a series of FOI requests to Wales’ 22 local authorities, of which all but one replied. The requests revealed that 1,347 settlement agreements contained clauses which bar former employees from challenging their exits in employment tribunals or in court, or speaking out against their employers in the media. A total of 981 were agreed by Wales’ largest authority, Cardiff council, alone.

The FOI responses, which illustrate the cost of the agreements as a whole and do not detail costs of clauses specifically, also revealed more than a third involved employees who worked with children or vulnerable people.

Lee Canning, coordinator for the Taxpayers’ Alliance in Wales, said:

“Local authorities are there to serve local communities, not to gag former staff members restricting transparency.

Measures such as so-called compromise agreements demonstrate the blatant disregard these local authorities have for local taxpayers.”

Nanny hates her subjects knowing what she is up to, and really loathes it when her mistakes are made public!

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Put The Elderly in Prison

Sadly there is an element of truth in the above.

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The Dangers of Washing Machines

Congratulations to the bloke who got himself stuck naked in a washing machine (as a prank for his partner), and who had to be rescued by firemen!

Proof positive that Nanny cannot legislate/advise against "stupid"!

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Global Warming - Beware The Polar Vortex

I see that one of the consequences of "global warming" is the current "Polar Vortex" that is gripping North America and Canada.

Clearly without "global warming" it would have been even colder there!

Oh, and by the way, heavy snow storms on the East coast of the USA tend to end up over here 3-4 days later.

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Nanny Bans Scousers

I see that ITV recently had an attack of Nannyitis, and decided that a comedy show’s creators should be banned from using the word “Scouser” or describing a drunk character as Australian because the terms had "racial" connotations.

Laurence Marks, the co-creator of Birds of a Feather, said it was “odd” that British broadcasters would allow four-letter tirades on air but baulked at traditional humour playing on national and regional stereotypes.

The Telegraph reported that he said he was told that it was “unacceptable” racial stereotyping to say somebody was Australian and drunk.

On another occasion, he said he and his writing partner Maurice Gran fell foul of rules prohibiting the use of the word “Scouser” to describe someone from Liverpool.

Calm down!

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Ker Farking Ching - The Greed of Councils

As we greet 2014, in the hope that it will be bearable, let me congratulate Brighton and Hove council for being in the top five of councils ranked by how much money they raised via parking charges and penalty notices in 2012/13.

Brighton and Hove trousered £16.3M last year, the most of any authority outside London.

Green councillor Ian Davey, the council's lead member for transport, was quoted by The Argus:

“The council does not make a profit from parking, nor do we set out to make a surplus. 

Our policy on parking is reflected in our sustainable transport programme which aims to tackle poor air quality, keep the city moving, manage parking availability and improve road safety.”

Whatever the council may say, many of Brighton's businesses rely on tourists; if the council is too greedy wrt parking charges, they will simply visit other towns instead.

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