Thank you for responding. Now I've (finally) got your attention again I can start playing the ball again, rather than the man.
When did you join the Greek Navy/Coastguard?
Yeah...just not allowed to do it in "are cuntry" though.
A personal view on the appointment from Richard Holway
I do find this appointment hard to justify. I have always worked on the basis that appointments were made based on expertise on the subject and/or past records of success. Seems the opposite is the case. I’ve been a TalkTalk/Tiscali user for 20 Years. I was also a shareholder. Any trawl through the HotViews archives will demonstrate my disapproval of the way Dido Harding managed TalkTalk which consistently ranked worse amongst the ISPs for customer service during her tenure. But, in particular, the way she handled, back in 2015, one of the most serious cyber attacks to hit a UK company. See TalkTalk cyber attack - Update. Although the Sept 2015 was the 3rd attack on TalkTalk, when Dido Harding was asked ‘Was the data encrypted?’ she said she didn’t know. I described it at the time as ‘an object lesson in how NOT to handle a crisis’. 157,000 customers records were affected. It cost TalkTalk £60m to sort, including a record £400K fine from the Information Commissioner, and 95,000 customers left for other broadband suppliers. In May 2015, just before the attack, TalkTalk shares had hit 400p. In Feb 17, Harding announced that she was stepping down. See Harding quits. Dunstone returns to Exec role at TalkTalk. By then TalkTalk shares had slumped to 175p. Later in 2017, Harding was appointed Chair at NHS Improvement. Then in May 20, Matt Hancock put Harding in charge of Track, Test and Trace. He said at the time ‘I can’t think of anyone better suited to this role than Dido...’ I have to admit I nearly fell off my chair when I heard this and the press conference when our PM also eulogised about ‘Dido’. If Harding couldn’t keep a relatively small number of records of TalkTalk customers secure, why put her in charge of a data gathering exercise affecting tens of millions of citizens of the UK? Why put a person described by the media as ‘naïve’ when it came to understanding the complexities of modern IT systems, in charge of one of the most vital ‘life or death’ systems of the modern era? Harding recruited 25,000 contact tracers saying ‘“If anything I’m worried that many of my brilliant contact tracers are not going to be very busy as we start to encourage more people to get a test.” She said there were “easily enough to trace down the contacts ...’ So many column inches have been written on the failure of England’s so called ‘World beating Track and Trace system’. I won’t repeat them here. I rather agree with Munira Wilson, the Lib Dem’s Health spokesperson, who said of the appointment ‘We need to ensure we get the best people for the job rather than focus on promoting yet another Tory insider’. Justin Madders, Labour's Health spokesperson, added 'I'm speechless. Appointed to a body that hasn't been created yet without an interview and with a track record like that; absolutely no transparency or accountability'. Source - Financial Times. This really is ‘Life or Death’ stuff now. It should be led by someone with real expertise in the field and an unblemished management track record. Harding has neither. |
Again you make the incorrect assumption.
There is a perfectly legal route to enter the UK as a migrant which I fully support.
I do not support those who choose to enter illegally and we need to be far more robust in dealing with the illegal aspect.
As much to save the victims of people trafficking as anything else.
We know that it often leads to modern slavery but, hey, as long as you can get your car washed for £10 eh?
For those quoting Greece as a way to deal with the issue I`m guessing you don`t mean like this just 5 months ago?
Greece migrant crisis: Refugee centre ablaze as tensions rise
Flames engulfed the centre on Saturday, as Greece announced fresh restrictions on asylum seekers.www.bbc.co.uk
Im one of those cynical people you speak of @Pete Burrett ... and the term distasteful is ,IMO, rather understating the way I find this latest of many outrage' from this Government, with an always absent PM
I'm sure he is. Pretty much nothing keeps him up at night, not even baby Wilfred I expect.
baby Wilfred has probably already been packed off to boarding school with his other half- siblings, under the watchful eye of nanny?
We can house them with the likes Lily Allen, Benedict Cumberbatch and JK Rowling while they await processing. Seems only fair they help to shoulder the burden.
didn't Gary Lineker get 'manoeuvred', after a few on-air comments, into housing some migrants at his place recently?
I'm not 100% sure. Last I saw was him avoiding the reply
newsthump.com
I suppose we should have expected the old reactionary trope 'why don't you put these people up then' as well as the pictures of helicopters and mentions of gun boats. Is it worth mentioning that JK Rowling regularly mentions the benefits support she received some years ago, pays all her tax in the UK and has donated significant amounts to various causes , including MS research, literacy and assisting single parents back into work?
