Were these individuals allowed to leave with a golden handshake and a full pension, or did they lose any entitlement due to their wrongdoing? When pressed in the past government spokespersons have often refused to answer such questions “for operational reasons we cannot disclose such details” which begs the question why not?
For instance, the current scandal around the Foreign Office Chief should be of concern as that job carries a salary scale of £235,000 to £239,999, and you can bet your worn out, downtrodden little booties that he won’t be on the standard state pension when he goes! In other words, the cost of getting rid of three senior civil servants could run into millions, and of course no penalties for mismanagement or wrongdoing shall be allowed to blight their CVs.
These people are public servants paid out of the public purse so the public has a right to know how their hard earned tax contributions are spent. Compare that with how private business employers deal with their staff when things go wrong and there is a whole gamut of hoops through which they must jump and legal processes with which they have to comply, and that’s even without input from trade unions and human rightists!
It just highlights yet again the differences in a two-class society where the rules apply to some but not others
Reflecting on how the sport has changed and keeps changing, the 2000-2019 decade generated many different headlines. There were new names amongst the rally winners and new champions to celebrate including the first Scot to win both the Scottish Rally Championship title and the British Rally Championship title in the same year. Long established rallies disappeared and new ones appeared and there were changes at the top of motor sport’s governing body and more changes within the Forestry Commission. There were losses too and fatal accident inquiries following which changes had to be implemented and yet, a new Public Road Closure Bill was introduced to ease the problem of organising closed public road events.
In other words there was much to write about yet again – too much!
Having said that, the first draft of the text is just about complete and will be off to the proof-readers shortly - along with a copious supply of red ink!
And finally, if you don’t hear from me again I shall endeavour to get the word out where I have been incarcerated and give you the address where to send the cake with the file in it!
Onwards and upwards, eh?
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