laughing all the way to the bank
The Dame has been looking at Judge Khan's WEIRD JUDGMENT which has enriched Mrs Wright-Turner to the tune of £4.6 million...tax free
The press has been guided to believe she suffered PTSD as a result of working on the post-impact of Grenfell: but that is not the case.
This man below will have suffered.
*Why Wright-Turner ever got appointed
*Why so they buggered up the dismissal process.
The result is that every H&F resident will have to chip in £25 so Mrs Wright-Turner can lead a life of luxury.
No doubt she retains a platinum plated pension.
If this lady gets 4.5 what are the firefighters going to get. The flammable cladding saved 300k, what an act of folly , as that act if hubris will end up costing millions, if not a billion and rising..When is the person who made that call going to be brought to somw kind of Justice? The human cost and damage can never be mentioned in pounds, shillings and pence. Lets just pray that the Judge gets the call on Grenfell right.
ReplyDeleteGrenfell firefighters settled for £20m in High Court
Deletehttps://www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/february-march-2024/grenfell-firefighters-settle-ps20m-high-court
The tribunal found officers in the council had lied in its evidence.
ReplyDeleteSenior council officers said in an untrue claim to colleagues that she was drunk before she attended the hospital.
It also heard separately she had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The authority's former chief executive Kim Smith said Ms Wright-Turner's brain didn't work like other people's.
She did not have an opportunity discuss or challenge the decision to dismiss her while she was on sick leave. The tribunal ruled Ms Smith and the council's then HR director lied to the tribunal that Ms Wright-Turner was informed earlier on the day she was admitted to hospital that her probation was to be extended. Ms Smith, the tribunal concluded, decided a day later when she took leave for her mental health.
The tribunal heard Ms Smith and HR director Mark Grimley planned to doctor her dismissal letter to appear it had been signed before a grievance against the council was launched, Her PTSD or ADHD was not mentioned in her termination letter the tribunal panel said "to avoid any inference that this decision was in any way connected with the claimant's mental health or related sickness absence"
The Council is to appeal £4.6m employment tribunal payout
DeleteYes, we know all this but it's clear her ADHD was known to her but not declared on the job application. So there was lack of integrity on her part. But the question remains...£4.6 million is a vast amount of money. Let's see what happens on appeal. The Tribunal judges are very low level indeed.
DeleteEarlier this month, 33 Metropolitan police officers who attended the scene of the Grenfell fire - 27 currently employed and 6 former officers - are suing the force over their ‘trauma’ for personal injuries and losses, with some claiming they are too traumatised to work.
DeleteThese Met police officers suing for trauma is a slap in the face to those who are still fighting for justice.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea expects the budget blackhole to hit £32 million by 2028.
ReplyDeleteTo answer the actual question posed.
ReplyDeleteNottingham, Birmingham and Woking councils all went bust in 2023. They followed and Thurrock and Croydon (for the third time) in 2022 - with half of councils warning of effective bankruptcy within five years without reform.
Councils technically can't go bankrupt - but they can issue what's called a section 114 notice, where they can't commit to any new spending, and must come back with a new budget within 21 days that falls in their spending envelope.
And when they do, it often means an impact on residents with severe cuts to frontline services.
Councils are required by law to have a balanced budget each financial year and provide "Best Value" to residents.
But more and more councils are finding it harder to do so.
A major factor is the reduction in money given to councils by central government. The Institute for Government think tank estimates that between 2009/10 and 2021/22 the average fall in spending power for local authorities was 31% when not including Covid grants. The Local Government Association says that councils' spending power has dropped 27% since 2010.
We are not going to get sense out on central government until after a general election. In the ongoing ‘psychodrama’, today Felicity Buchan was drafted into PMQs to sit behind Rischi Sunak just to put distance between him and Penny Mordant.
Quentin Letts comments in the Daily Mail about Felicity “plonked” between Rishi Sunak the veggie and carnivorous Penny Mordaunt https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13220999/QUENTIN-LETTS-watches-PMQs.html
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21:32 the reality is that most council officers and councillors are pretty low grade and couldn't manage any private company. This is the problem when handed money on a plate without having to graft for it. Talking about residents being 'customers' might make them feel they are proper businesses but that is just deluded.
Delete21:49 Over my career, I worked in both the public and private sector. Having witnessed the cultures of both sectors, I always find myself particularly irritated when I hear people say they think a successful businessman would make an excellent leader of government, with the expectation that they would make the inefficient public sector operate as efficiently as the private sector. That belief has no basis whatsoever in fact.
DeleteDuring my many years working for a large public agency, I can say that I never saw anywhere in the private sector the level of dedication that I saw in the public workforce. That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of people in the public sector who were ineffective at their jobs – but I can say that the percentage of such people was no different in the public sector than in the private sector companies that I had occasion to observe in action. The vast majority of the companies I have witnessed in action are every bit as inefficient as anything I’ve seen the public sector – and sometimes far worse. At least in the public sector, most of management and the work force understand and fully believe that their jobs contribute to the good of society and are essential to the well being of the communities they serve. Such a belief is a strong motivator for people to do their jobs well, especially in times of crisis. Most public sector agencies are significantly underfunded for the purpose which they are intended to serve, yet their management and work force endlessly make do with what they have to try and provide the best possible service given their fiscal constraints.
On the other hand, the private sector is entirely motivated by profit. Individuals within these companies work to get paid. Of course, there are many who believe the work they do has value and contributes to the world, but that is not what drives the companies for which they work. For most companies, the service they provide or products they manufacture are of little matter. Those are just the means by which to generate profit, and they might just as well be providing any other service or making any other product – so long as it sells. Getting the job done right is not the primary driver, except that if they screw up enough jobs, they have more difficulty selling themselves, and if they do a bad enough job, they will go out of business. So, getting it right is just a means to sell more of whatever they sell – not the end goal.
For this reason, the drive to privatize many government functions is largely misguided. It doesn’t make government better, it just subjects it to the profit motive, with predictably bad results for the end users – which is, of course, the public. Private sector companies have little to encourage them to deliver the best possible product or service for a public function, as they will only strive to deliver a level of service that will maximize their profit. For this reason, much thinking and work has been done by numerous government agencies at all levels, to draft contracts that provide carrots and sticks to encourage better performance by private contractors – but, from my experience, such means are not only far from perfect, but are indicative in and of themselves of the essence of the problem. If private contractors were, on their own, sufficiently motivated to achieve excellence over profit, such contracts wouldn’t be necessary. But they are.
The bottom line of this, is that both government and the private sector serve different masters. They each have an important role to play in society, but those roles are different. Trying to make either the mechanism for accomplishing what the other does better is misguided at best – and catastrophic at worst.
Sorry, K&C is still desperately trying to get staff back to work. A huge percentage are still trying to work from home. Now you may say that is fine and if that is your view then the Town Hall is more or less surplus to requirements. All I see in councils is waste and poor quality management. The fact that it is virtually impossible getting rid of incompetent staff is another factor.
DeleteThe award reflects both the scale of what Mrs Wright-Turner suffered, and the seriousness of the unlawful conduct by her former employer. Hammersmith and Fulham’s conduct fell well below any acceptable standard for a public authority.
ReplyDeleteThese sorts of cases all just all too common. Did this woman declare she has ADHD when applying for the job?
DeleteA mouth-watering and life-changing award at our expense. Let's see what proper judges think is right and proper, shall we? It is odd that in this case the judging panel was all female.At least, K&C aren't on the line. It must have breathed a sigh of relief when she moved to H&F
You draw attention to "the judging panel was all female." Presumably you think that could have made a difference because women are??
DeleteBecause it is more than likely they would assume it was all the fault of the men on the council....do I have to explain everything?
Delete13:18 you do not have to explain anything. You are clearly an old fashioned sexist claiming women can’t be objective.
DeleteOink! Oink! Sexist pig.
DeleteCALL IT OUT YOU ARE A SEXIST.
Delete'Call it out'. The Dame should censor those using boring Americanisms that are meaningless...just like 'oink oink' so unimaginative
DeletePersonally, I like to communicate in emojis.😎
Delete20:36, yes please, 'call out' the sexism:
DeleteOne thing you rarely hear when the topic of equality comes up is the early age of death of men compared to women.
Another thing you rarely hear, when the topic of mental health comes up, is the disproportionate male suicide rate.
Yes, it is time to call a day on the men who hate women.
DeleteWhy shouldn’t a WOMAN be given money she deserves? What next? Is the Dame going to complain about money given to the Princess of Wales! (What terrible luck for the King and Kate to have cancer at the same time. It sounds like she had an operation to remove a lump. They are now giving her chemo to catch any secondary metastases).The Princess of Wales salary is £2million/year https://wageindicator.co.uk/pay/vip-celebrity-salary/kate-middleton-princess-wales
ReplyDeleteWhat a very bizarre brain(or sort of brain) you possess. You conflate the financial situation of the Princes of Wales with a council officer and then pronounce on Kate's medical condition...The Dame seems to have some very odd readers.
DeleteWatching the news they keep commenting on leaving her well alone, and then interview experts in cancer and Royal commentators on repeat. Typical media saying one thing and doing the other
Delete21:02 you seem utterly vile. You have no idea at about Kate's medical status. The Hornet was wrong to have published your lunatic comment. As for pathetic attempt to rationalise a £4.5 million payout in the way you did....words fail me. Back under your stone.
DeleteAnonymous 22 March 2024 at 21:52
DeleteOnly a MISOGYNIST, suffering the politics of envy, would find it utterly vile that a WOMAN, with a medical condition, could be a multi-millionaire.
I wish Kate a speedy recovery and long life and health. Terrible news for anybody to receive.
DeleteIt is good to see the Dame sticking it to this woman. Fair is fair but how can what happened to her be worth £4.5m? As far as gender on FTHN is concerned the Dame should root out the sexism.
ReplyDeleteThe judge said of the dismissal letter that the absence of any reference to Wright-Turner’s sickness absence was a “deliberate omission to avoid any inference that this decision was in any way connected with the claimant’s mental health or related sickness absence”.
ReplyDeleteHe ruled that, on the issue of doctoring letters, Smith and Grimley “acted together to deceive the claimant”, and that they failed to “follow the provisions or spirit of the probationary procedure in relation to the claimant”.