Blackburn with Darwen council refuses to reveal NHS chief pay-off (From Lancashire Telegraph)

What is the point of the Freedom of Information Act if it discretionary?
It's plainly idiotic to claim that disclosure of the payoff would breach Data Protection rules if they have already disclosed her salary.

Sickening amounts of money being handed over to a sellect few,and the rest of the country left to struggle through cut backs,it makes me feel sick just to read what as been disclosed so far,let alone what is really being kept from us. 21/12/12,Don`t ignore the facts.

It’s just a case of the ‘New Labour’ Blackburm with Darwen labour council showing what it’s true colours are. Exactly what all ‘True Labour’ people thought Conservatives to be?
Jack Straw is still flying the ‘New Labour’ flag while still living in London and Graham Burgess who lives in Liverpool has now taken over those roles that have been axed. Very suspect moves?
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‘New Labour Tony Blair‘ is now extremely well off when the country is not. Draw your own conclusions!

time.team wrote:
It’s just a case of the ‘New Labour’ Blackburm with Darwen labour council showing what it’s true colours are. Exactly what all ‘True Labour’ people thought Conservatives to be? Jack Straw is still flying the ‘New Labour’ flag while still living in London and Graham Burgess who lives in Liverpool has now taken over those roles that have been axed. Very suspect moves? - ‘New Labour Tony Blair‘ is now extremely well off when the country is not. Draw your own conclusions!

What a nonsense comment - are you a simpleton? The labour party is not in power nationally or on the Council so if you are to blame someone blame the Torie/liberal alliance. I am a nurse in Preston and believe me the spin nationally that the government is making cuts to managers is nonsense. Already people leaving the NHS are being lined up by GPs and private sector firms to run health services. However, I would like to point out that to be fair to the condem government the figures quoted in this story are highly suspect and any payoff would be a fraction of this. The reporter was either on a short deadline or bored so simply added 2 plus 2 and made 5. Very shoddy.

time.team wrote:
It’s just a case of the ‘New Labour’ Blackburm with Darwen labour council showing what it’s true colours are. Exactly what all ‘True Labour’ people thought Conservatives to be? Jack Straw is still flying the ‘New Labour’ flag while still living in London and Graham Burgess who lives in Liverpool has now taken over those roles that have been axed. Very suspect moves? - ‘New Labour Tony Blair‘ is now extremely well off when the country is not. Draw your own conclusions!

time.team is indeed in a time warp. BwD Council has been run by the Con/Lib-Dem/'For Darwen' coalition for just over 3 years now.
time.team needs to re-set the co-ordinates on his tardis to come into the 2010 time zone and not that of 2007 !

Eileen Dover wrote:

time.team wrote: It’s just a case of the ‘New Labour’ Blackburm with Darwen labour council showing what it’s true colours are. Exactly what all ‘True Labour’ people thought Conservatives to be? Jack Straw is still flying the ‘New Labour’ flag while still living in London and Graham Burgess who lives in Liverpool has now taken over those roles that have been axed. Very suspect moves? - ‘New Labour Tony Blair‘ is now extremely well off when the country is not. Draw your own conclusions!

What a nonsense comment - are you a simpleton? The labour party is not in power nationally or on the Council so if you are to blame someone blame the Torie/liberal alliance. I am a nurse in Preston and believe me the spin nationally that the government is making cuts to managers is nonsense. Already people leaving the NHS are being lined up by GPs and private sector firms to run health services. However, I would like to point out that to be fair to the condem government the figures quoted in this story are highly suspect and any payoff would be a fraction of this. The reporter was either on a short deadline or bored so simply added 2 plus 2 and made 5. Very shoddy.

when it comes to shoddy, this paper is becoming a world leader. For what it's worth, I hope you are still in a job after the dust has settled. These new fangled charity status private sector companies are all the fashion and just privatisation by the back door.

It's really quite simple ... yes, it's digusting, sickening even to read ... yet it's so 'atypically' British, reward failure with bonuses, let the rest who haven't failed rot, starve and struggle ...

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But it's simple because this is the plan: make it so no one living in certain areas - which just happen to be North of Watford, they are even boasting about how the cuts won't affect the south and, guess what?, London particularly and the south east, now what does that tell anyone - can afford to access any free healthcare and ... force the county into a no win situation ie private healthcare. But only for those who can afford it.

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And to Eileen I would simply say this: 'enjoy your job whilst you can'.

your granny wrote:

Eileen Dover wrote:

time.team wrote: It’s just a case of the ‘New Labour’ Blackburm with Darwen labour council showing what it’s true colours are. Exactly what all ‘True Labour’ people thought Conservatives to be? Jack Straw is still flying the ‘New Labour’ flag while still living in London and Graham Burgess who lives in Liverpool has now taken over those roles that have been axed. Very suspect moves? - ‘New Labour Tony Blair‘ is now extremely well off when the country is not. Draw your own conclusions!

What a nonsense comment - are you a simpleton? The labour party is not in power nationally or on the Council so if you are to blame someone blame the Torie/liberal alliance. I am a nurse in Preston and believe me the spin nationally that the government is making cuts to managers is nonsense. Already people leaving the NHS are being lined up by GPs and private sector firms to run health services. However, I would like to point out that to be fair to the condem government the figures quoted in this story are highly suspect and any payoff would be a fraction of this. The reporter was either on a short deadline or bored so simply added 2 plus 2 and made 5. Very shoddy.

when it comes to shoddy, this paper is becoming a world leader. For what it's worth, I hope you are still in a job after the dust has settled. These new fangled charity status private sector companies are all the fashion and just privatisation by the back door.

Thanks, sadly morale in the nursing profession is very low not just in our ward but in many hospitals. I lost three colleagues in the last 6 months to jobs in the private sector. It is not their fault, they have mortgages and families and we are being offered better terms and working conditions in the private sector. The RCN seems oblivious to the problems and more concerned with not upsetting a dept of health in turmoil. I'm lucky, I'm fairly near retirement but young nurses are opting for other professions.

Davidoff wrote:
It's really quite simple ... yes, it's digusting, sickening even to read ... yet it's so 'atypically' British, reward failure with bonuses, let the rest who haven't failed rot, starve and struggle ...

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But it's simple because this is the plan: make it so no one living in certain areas - which just happen to be North of Watford, they are even boasting about how the cuts won't affect the south and, guess what?, London particularly and the south east, now what does that tell anyone - can afford to access any free healthcare and ... force the county into a no win situation ie private healthcare. But only for those who can afford it.

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And to Eileen I would simply say this: 'enjoy your job whilst you can'.

Good point. People should wake up and
Smell the coffee - we are very close to having companies like Virgin running our NHS - are we all happy with that?? The NHS is a public service not a business and until we accept that fact it will be run like a business with the patients losing out. The government believes GPs are the answer but believe me GPs will be the first to award themselves hefty pay rises when they hey their hands on all that lovely lolly - they did in the past when GP fundholding was introduced and will do so again. People need to see past the smiley face of Mr Cameron and look at the real agenda of the government - the dismantling of the NHS. They don't believe in it's ethos and as soon as they get the sniff of a chance will try and break it up as they have started with their plans for GP
Commissioning. Meanwhile the media turns a blind eye or as this article has shown prefer instead to indulge in a bit of NHS bashing.

The tories along with the agree to anything to have a title lib dems, The total destruction of the N.H.S is now in sight for the gloating tories. I hope the doctors involved in this sell out will hang their heads in shame, of course the money they will be able to demand will ease their conscience.
This may sound far fetched but it is nearer than you dare think.
Jobs for the boys has just taken on a new meaning.

whereistedward wrote:

time.team wrote:
It’s just a case of the ‘New Labour’ Blackburm with Darwen labour council showing what it’s true colours are. Exactly what all ‘True Labour’ people thought Conservatives to be? Jack Straw is still flying the ‘New Labour’ flag while still living in London and Graham Burgess who lives in Liverpool has now taken over those roles that have been axed. Very suspect moves? - ‘New Labour Tony Blair‘ is now extremely well off when the country is not. Draw your own conclusions!

time.team is indeed in a time warp. BwD Council has been run by the Con/Lib-Dem/'For Darwen' coalition for just over 3 years now.
time.team needs to re-set the co-ordinates on his tardis to come into the 2010 time zone and not that of 2007 !

i dont know about whereistedward - more like where is whereistedward? - thought you were meant to be in chicago.....incident
ally the most corrupt city administration in US.
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Coincidence?

Dangle a worm and your bound to attract sharks!
Un-great small new red ones.

why not put David Dunn and Graham Alexander outside the front door that will make everybody feel better ! oh sorry that isnt really relevant to this story, then again its got nothing to do with the fact that due to spending cuts expectant mothers from Blackburn will have to travel all the way to Burnley to give birth. hope she enjoys my tax money Im sure she thoughrily deserves it.