Crozier....................top knob!!

[NEWS]

:cfo


The bosses of Britain's top 20 quangos are costing taxpayers £6.2million a year, researchers have discovered.

This is despite Gordon Brown's promise to trim the non-accountable, publicly funded bodies.

An Economic Research Council study shows that the four highest earners each received more than £500,000 while the total cost of 'quangocracy' is £167.5billion.

Top of the public sector rich list is Adam Crozier, who was paid £812,697 last year - although with bonuses he actually earns more than £1million.

News of his outsized pay packet follows complaints of lost and delayed mail and the Royal Mail's initial refusal to allow families of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to send free parcels.

Next comes Michael Parker, the chief of British Nuclear Fuels, who earned £635,751.

Andy Duncan, the head of Channel 4, which receives an annual subsidy of £894million, is fourth on the rich list with a salary of £549,000.

He has come under repeated fire this year over the Celebrity Big Brother race row and the "dumbing down" of the station's programmes.

And victims of this summer's floods, who face huge bills clearing up after the deluge, may be dismayed to know that Baroness Young, head of the Environment Agency which oversaw the response, earned £200,000 last year and is 16th on the list.

Council-director Dan Lewis yesterday criticised the Cabinet Office for its growing reluctance to provide useful information about quangos and those who work for them.

The office suspended a database in April last year and disbanded its public bodies team which collected information about quangos.

But taxpayers can now check how much quangos cost on the council's web page: www.ercouncil.org.

"Nothing shows more clearly the contempt this government has for taxpayers' money than the record salaries of these quango fat cats," said Mr Lewis.

"These vast salaries show that the time is well overdue for a public inquiry into the pay awards of quango bosses.

"Who decides what they are paid, how they are chosen and how can we tell whether they're worth what they're paid?

"We need to know. Until that happens, at the very least, there should be a total salary freeze.

"Even when our frontline troops are undersupplied, underequipped, fighting and dying on a miserly £14,000 a year, this government shamelessly carries on funding the enormous salaries of these quangocrats."


Tory Treasury spokesman, Philip Hammond, said: "Gordon Brown promised 'a bonfire of the quangos'" in 1995, but check the small print and you see that Government spending on quangos has soared by £ 44billion in the last four years - £1,700 for every British family.

"Far from improving transparency and accountability, the Prime Minister has allowed quango costs to spiral while cutting back on the amount of information published about them.

"The ERC's initiative is very welcome - and necessary, given that Gordon Brown has failed in his promise to tackle the quangocracy."

Earlier it emerged that 883 quangos cost the taxpayer £167.5billion last year.

This was a seven-fold increase from the £24.1billion when Labour came to power ten years ago and more than five times the Ministry of Defence's £32billion budget for this year.

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[IWW Fellow Worker]

He 'earns' more than £1 million? I doubt he's earned anything since the day he left school. Parasites like this don't earn anything. They might get paid by whichever concern is daft enough to part with that amount of cash, but that's all. They certainly don't 'earn' anything.

[jafferpants]

iIWW FELLOW WORKER- YOU JUST STOLE MY THUNDER. NOTHING LEFT TO SAY.

[DirtyHarry]

He 'earns' more than £1 million? I doubt he's earned anything since the day he left school. Parasites like this don't earn anything. They might get paid by whichever concern is daft enough to part with that amount of cash, but that's all. They certainly don't 'earn' anything.

Too right, mate. These vermin never "earn" the money given them.

[Codebreaker]

Someone brought the paper in for me to see this morning.

Earns lots of money.

Must be worth it otherwise they would not pay him that huge salary/bonus - very interesting.

Something also very interesting is the fact that he was sacked years ago by the PR/Marketing giant Saatchi & Saatchi.





GOOD LUCK TO US ALL AND HAVE FAITH

[IWW Fellow Worker]

Someone brought the paper in for me to see this morning.

Earns lots of money.

Must be worth it otherwise they would not pay him that huge salary/bonus - very interesting.

Something also very interesting is the fact that he was sacked years ago by the PR/Marketing giant Saatchi & Saatchi.





GOOD LUCK TO US ALL AND HAVE FAITH

And virtually forced to resign by the F.A.

[deadbox]

Lets make it a HAT TRICK, and SACK him from Royal Mail !

[L Tommo]

You three geezers are top hole.. I would love a beer and a chin wag and put the world to rights with you fellas...

Get hold of Big AL N lil adam and give it to em big style... No violence just a good old roasting from US... The idiots would roll up into a ball and cry for mummy.... Well maybe a sly dig nown again..

TOP FELLAS!!!!


UNITY IS STRENGTH!!!


NEVER LET THE BASTARDS GRIND US DOWN!!!!

[IWW Fellow Worker]

You three geezers are top hole.. I would love a beer and a chin wag and put the world to rights with you fellas...

Get hold of Big AL N lil adam and give it to em big style... No violence just a good old roasting from US... The idiots would roll up into a ball and cry for mummy.... Well maybe a sly dig nown again..

TOP FELLAS!!!!


UNITY IS STRENGTH!!!


NEVER LET THE BASTARDS GRIND US DOWN!!!!

Thanks Tommo! There are quite a few 'top hole' people on here who I would rely on in a tough spot.

[stevie247]

Channel 4 a commercial station recives an annual subsidy of £894 million,this is SHOCKING while royal mail have to live or die in a commercial world DOUBLE STANDARDS!

[jafferpants]

TOMMO YOUV'E JUST REMINDED ME WITH YOUR COMMENT ABOUT A RAT, AND THAT'S WHAT CROZIER REMINDS ME OF "ROWLAND RAT". HE WAS A SCRAWNY FACED c*** AS WELL.

[Loyalblue]

TOMMO YOUV'E JUST REMINDED ME WITH YOUR COMMENT ABOUT A RAT, AND THAT'S WHAT CROZIER REMINDS ME OF "ROWLAND RAT". HE WAS A SCRAWNY FACED c*** AS WELL.

Oi! who are you calling a "Scrawny faced c***t" you B******d! Dont you compare me to that t****r!

Signed
R Rat esquire

[DGP1]

I know which one I prefer

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I know which one I prefer

Sorry for a minute there I thought someone had started a "Spot the difference" thread.

[norbet colon]

Channel 4 a commercial station recives an annual subsidy of £894 million,this is SHOCKING while royal mail have to live or die in a commercial world DOUBLE STANDARDS!

-Apparently it's a Public Service Broadcasting Obligation to Inform etc , C4 has to put a certain amount of Religious programmes or programmes about any form of religion , there's ways round it put the kids programmes on a Digital Channel whilst you have utter sh*** like Big Brother or Inbred Chav TV like Jeremy Kyle for the ratings and advertising revenue. Still Surprised though.
The quangos & spin doctors started under Major but with a Centralized Stalinist but Pro -Business Agenda it's gone through the roof with New Lie-bour. Jobs for the boys and New Lie-bour votes. What a wonderful country this is?.