Today I'm angry about.....

[Worthy4England]

Hazel Blears, what a c**t.

Shit MP, house flipper etc...

Lands a £600000pa job with the slowly recovering on its arse co-op working a minimum of 1 or 2 days a month.

Feck off co-op my membership card is back to you.

I agree with you on your opinion of Blears. However I have to pull you up on her salary. It is 60k not 600k. For that fairly modest directors salary she will be working a minimum of 1 to 2 days a month.

Not bad if you can get it.

I agree generally. £60k per annum for a part time Director is the least of their worries, though.

[bobo the clown]

I agree generally. £60k per annum for a part time Director is the least of their worries, though.

Indeed.

I spoke, last year, about doing some work for one of their better divisions. As they explained where things stood and what they were looking for help with I was stunned.

I don't run away from much, especially for good money, but fck me I did from this. "Basket case" doesn't come near to describing it.

[Beefheart]

I agree generally. £60k per annum for a part time Director is the least of their worries, though.

Indeed.

I spoke, last year, about doing some work for one of their better divisions. As they explained where things stood and what they were looking for help with I was stunned.

I don't run away from much, especially for good money, but fck me I did from this. "Basket case" doesn't come near to describing it.

That was reaction when the firm I worked at won the audit last year, the fee might be good, but good fecking luck to whoever has to audit that mess.

[Bijou Bob]

I met Hazel a few times and I'll give her her due, she remembers everything you discuss. Even after an 18 months gap between meetings, she walked up to me and said "Hello Bob, how' the biking going". I always found her quite warm and approachable as a person, which to be fair, was at times quite distinct from her political persona. Used to work with her husband who despite being a lawyer, is a lovely chap.

That's my only, slightly tenuous claim to know anyone of importance.

[KeyserSoze]

I see it's that time of year again where Britain First use the memory of a dead soldier against his family's will to promote their own activities, and several people who should know better share it on FB.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Had that post on my feed but it was the english bible. Is that BF pretending to be someone else?

[Worthy4England]

I agree generally. £60k per annum for a part time Director is the least of their worries, though.

Indeed.

I spoke, last year, about doing some work for one of their better divisions. As they explained where things stood and what they were looking for help with I was stunned.

I don't run away from much, especially for good money, but fck me I did from this. "Basket case" doesn't come near to describing it.

That was reaction when the firm I worked at won the audit last year, the fee might be good, but good fecking luck to whoever has to audit that mess.

Indeed, I know a couple of their Board - I've been working with them (not for them) for about 3 years off and on. I'm mightily impressed by their ability to call you in, understand the problem when you've told them what it is, agree with your solution, send you away to solve it themselves or buy it from someone cheaper (because they have a great track record on that front), try, fail and call you back in 12 months later to explain how the problem is now much worse. Repeat ad infinitum.

[thebish]

I was also asked to go and sort out their financial mess - and I seriously considered it - they have a record employing clergy types... but the eye-watering sums they were offering me were not enough to persuade me...

[TANGODANCER]

Don't do fiendishly angry any more, non-productive and stressful. I still do a decent "exaspirated annoyance" though. Like today, lovely weather, Bolton town centre crowded with bank holiday families etc, loads of munchers chomping on fish and chips, hamburgers, hot-dogs and pies etc etc. Everybody on foot, because, Town Hall square apart with those tombstone flag benches, not a single seat in sight down the whole length of Newport Street right up to the station. The council have removed the lot. Brilliant. I'm sure some supersonic plan is in motion because the elephants are getting the chop too. They're heading for the Octagon car park apparently. No doubt all will be revealed....sometime

[Bijou Bob]

I presume Tango, it's to stop the square being regularly littered with the homeless, the aggressive, the drunk and the asylum seeking. All of whom were sitting around in great numbers the last time I was in town.

[Bruce Rioja]

The three brightly-coloured elephants — named Ellie, Elner and Mr Jackbow — will take pride of place in the new play area, which will be based in Octagon Square

Octagon Square? Brilliant.

[thebish]

I presume Tango, it's to stop the square being regularly littered with the homeless, the aggressive, the drunk and the asylum seeking. All of whom were sitting around in great numbers the last time I was in town.

I can see how you'd identify someone as drunk or aggressive - at a pinch, homeless - but how do you identify an asylum seeker from the way they are sitting on a bench?

[Lord Kangana]

More bloody foreigners.

[TANGODANCER]

I presume Tango, it's to stop the square being regularly littered with the homeless, the aggressive, the drunk and the asylum seeking. All of whom were sitting around in great numbers the last time I was in town.

I can see how you'd identify someone as drunk or aggressive - at a pinch, homeless - but how do you identify an asylum seeker from the way they are sitting on a bench?

I might be tempted to think B.B was in jocose mode there bish. He might not have been, but....

[Dujon]

Octagon Square? Brilliant.

Classic, Bruce. I must ask a local, friendly, topologist what it means.

[Bijou Bob]

I presume Tango, it's to stop the square being regularly littered with the homeless, the aggressive, the drunk and the asylum seeking. All of whom were sitting around in great numbers the last time I was in town.

I can see how you'd identify someone as drunk or aggressive - at a pinch, homeless - but how do you identify an asylum seeker from the way they are sitting on a bench?

1. I worked the town centre as a cop

2. A good friend of mine works as a counsellor working with refugees and asylum seekers ( I thought I'd heard some harrowing tales in my practice, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING compared to what some of her clients have witnessed or been through). The town hall square is used as a safe spot to hang out during the day ( it's covered by cctv), there is shelter and warmth if they need it and it's where they meet newcomers to the area from their own towns, villages and tribal areas.

Good enough?

[thebish]

no!

was there not once a TV series about the stuff seen on CCTV?

[Gravedigger]

Octagon Square? Brilliant.

Classic, Bruce. I must ask a local, friendly, topologist what it means.

Aye, particularly as Ordnance Survey will have to triangulate it

[Bijou Bob]

no!

was there not once a TV series about the stuff seen on CCTV?

Yes. And they regularly show some of the footage I've shot covertly on sky and itv, but Feck knows where they got it from!

[thebish]

no!

was there not once a TV series about the stuff seen on CCTV?

Yes. And they regularly show some of the footage I've shot covertly on sky and itv, but Feck knows where they got it from!

the bizzies sold it to them!