THAMES WATER CEO NON EXEC AT LLOYDS BANK!

Here's another example of Crazy Britain.

Thames Water 'let go' its CEO, Sarah Bentley with a £2m bonus.  

She had the cheek to claim she had laid the foundation for a successful turnaround.

Our next bills will show increases of 40% with Thames Water still up its ears in sewage.

Sarah Bentley and her  then chairman, Ian Marchant are national disgraces. Both have earned millions.

Ian Marchant has form. When running SSE the company was fined £7 million for miss-selling. 

Despite this, he still managed to get £500k a year as part-time chair of Thames Water.

Charlie Nunn, the CEO of Lloyds Bank has decided that Sarah Bentley is a useful non-exec director of the bank.

If you are a customer of Lloyds and Thames Water you could email Charlie telling him what you think about Bentley remaining on his board...oh and his other non-exec is non-exec of river polluting Southern Water.

Charlie's email is charlie.nunn@lloydsbanking.com

CRAZY BRITAIN!

Often in Waitrose, you see staff with severe disabilities. Often they are assisted by colleagues.

If they wished they could justifiably stay at home claiming benefits. 

The Dame is just full of admiration for them. 

But what separated them from those who dubiously claim to be so sick they cannot work?

The Dame did question one staff member who could have stayed at home rather than travel miles to work. 

He said he would be bored staying at home and loved coming to work.

There is something seriously wrong with Crazy Britain!

THE MESS THAT IS THE MET

Dear Dame 

Two cults supposedly infest the upper echelons of the Met... Freemasons and Common Purpose.

You can read a lot about Common Purpose HERE. 

Some of the stuff is sensationalist but,leaving that aside, there are very worrying aspects to CP's infiltration into the Met and branches of the Civil Service.

And no, you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to question CP and its motivations.

             Common Purpose Advocate: Cressida Dick

The previous and current commissioners were/are leading lights within CP.

As Chief Constable of Surrey Mark Rowley was a leading CP member. There was considerable anger when SCC funded CP training courses. The council officer who approved the funding was a graduate of CP.

This is Assistant Commissioner Twiss. Twiss was bought into the Met from Surrey. At the time of COVID he was great enthusiast for the extreme policing of COVID rules. Was he a protege of Rowley? Is that how he got promoted? And is he a CP graduate?

CP claims that its sole purpose is to identify and train leaders. All very laudable EXCEPT that clique of leaders tends to favour other CP graduates. 

More worrying is that these courses take place under Chatham House Rules.... no one is supposed to disclose what actually goes on at training meetings.

But, Dame, the nub of the matter is this. CP believes that leaders can be 'trained up': we all know that to be arrant nonsense. Leaders are born not made. 

Pretending you can construct leaders may be what is causing deficiencies in the Met

With regards

Interested Party

NOT SO ANGELIC

 

mmm...part time capitalist

A disastrous Thatcher policy was the sale of council houses. 

5 million tenants took up the right to buy. 

It radically diminished the housing stock and allowed tenants to make a massive capital gain off the the back of taxpayers...the rightful owners.

Whether Angela Rayner owes capital gains is a moot point.

What is not is why a diehard left wing politician (who likes to throw 'mate' about in parliament) so cynically abused right to buy.

The Labour opposition at that time was rightly furious about the sale of social housing stock.

The Dame brands Rayner a hypocrite.

ABOLITION NOT SILLY AWARDS

 

If the Council was serious about helping businesses it would come clean about the 10% it gets from Business Rates.

These stupid awards(one is for demonstrating diversity!) do nothing to assist struggling small businesses.

Business Rates strangle enterprise. 

The Conservatives have had years to make reforms but have done nothing. Joe Powell tells the Dame Labour will urgently review this pernicious and unfair tax.

Let's hope it does. 

The Dame knows of one well-known and highly regarded jewellery retailer paying £77,000 a year in Business Rates.

POPULAR KENSINGTON PRIEST PROMOTED

 

You don't need to be Catholic to feel great affection for Monsignor Jim Curry. 

Since 2008 Father Jim has been Parish Priest of Our Lady of Victories in Kensington. 

In all those years he has gained a reputation for his wisdom, kindness and Irish good humour. 

Pope Francis has now appointed Father Jim as an Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Westminster.

The Dame sends congratulations to Father Jim and hopes he won't be completely deserting Kensington.

NO STYLE:NO SUBSTANCE

 

The Dame is of a generation when leaders of Great Britain looked the part. 

This trio look as if they are on the way to one of Grant Shapps's 'Get Rich Quick' symposiums in Las Vegas.

It's all so sad...

BRING DOWN STEPHEN WATSON!

 

Common touch

This is Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester. 

In short order, he moved GMC out of special measures.

He may not have a degree in criminology but he does have a high degree of leadership quality.

He comes from a service family used to the leadership of men.

Very different from the incumbent here in London, Mark Rowley...a genuine product of leftist and useless Common Purpose.

        Common Purpose