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February 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Last updated at 10:19 PM on 2nd February 2012
Network Rail, like the Royal Bank of Scotland, is dependent upon the taxpayer for billions of pounds in funding.
Yet, incredibly, executives at the rail management company appear to have learned nothing from the bitter row over RBS chief executive Stephen Hester’s £1million bonus.
The parallels between the two are striking.
Reward for failure: Network Rail boss Sir David Higgins (left) is entitled to a similar bonus to that of RBS chief executive Stephen Hester (right)
As with Mr Hester, Network Rail boss Sir David Higgins (who earns a basic salary of £560,000) and five of his colleagues are contractually entitled to request a bonus.
But, by hoping to share as much as £20million between them over the next three years – £3.8million of it payable to Sir David alone – the Network Rail executives are, like Mr Hester was, pursuing a reward for failure.
In 2011, the Office of the Rail Regulator ruled Network Rail, which receives a £4billion subsidy from the public purse, performed so poorly that it was in breach of its licence.
Shambolically – despite huge fare increases – there were congested routes, poor management of tracks, packed trains and line closures, with almost 14,000 long-distance trains (or one in every seven) arriving at their destination over ten minutes late.
Fixing the unholy mess which Labour made of the railways is almost as daunting a task as Mr Hester faces in restoring bailed-out RBS to health.
It’s crucial both jobs are done properly and speedily, and it’s not unreasonable for those in charge to expect significant remuneration if they succeed.
Last year, however, was not a good one for Network Rail or RBS, whose shares almost halved in value.
Eventually, Mr Hester had the grace to recognise the right thing to do was to decline his undeserved bonus. Now Sir David and his Network Rail colleagues should do the same.
Let down by the law
By camping out in all weathers for more than 640 days, the doughty residents of Meriden have done a service to Solihull Council by helping to prevent the spread of an illegal traveller site on the edge of their village.
Predictably, however, the Town Hall bureaucrats – who have so far failed to evict the travellers – do not see it this way, and have ruled the residents’ modest protest shelter is an unlawful development which must be dismantled.
Sadly, this unfair treatment is typical of the way the planning system is skewed against those who wish to protect the well-being of their communities.
Remember how travellers were able to remain on an illegal site at Dale Farm, in Essex, for a full ten years, at a cost to the taxpayer of £18million?
Little wonder the public feels so badly disillusioned with a governing class which always puts the law-abiding last.
Deadly weekends
Given the vast £2billion a week being poured into the NHS, patients have a right to expect the same quality of care in hospital whenever they fall sick or suffer an accident.
Yet, as we report today, those admitted on a Sunday are a shocking 16 per cent more likely to die within 30 days than somebody who enters hospital in the middle of the week.
Of course, it’s not the first time NHS managers have been warned that, by relying on junior staff and closing vital services on a Saturday and Sunday, lives are being unforgivably placed at risk.
If they are not prepared to change their archaic, dangerous working practices themselves, then ministers must make them do it.
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Red light for bonus excellent head line because that is where most of the money will be spent , so why should us the public the tax payer be giving money to the sex industry?
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Red light for bonus excellent head line because that is where most of the money will be spent , so why should us the public the tax payer be giving money to the sex industry?
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give them a boot not a bonus!!
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give them a boot not a bonus!!
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I hope not!
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Network rail like the banks has the best of both worlds, a nationalised company run as a private business, with the tax payer picking up the bills while the management help themselves to profit, this arrangemenmt can only benefit the old boys club.
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What a completely different world our lawmakers live in! A posse of gypsies
illegally set up home on a greenfield site, and the local council agree that
indeed, it is an illegal act. When the locals protest about this illegality and
campaign to make sure that these law-breakers are removed, then of course
the Council, like the Police “Service,” always go for the easiest target, and so
they threaten and cow the protesting residents instead, and order Them to
remove a structure – which they know Will be removed anyway, as soon as
the illegal habitants have been evicted! And so, the law-breakers become
inviolate, and those who protest against such law-breakers are themselves
targeted by the people responsible for supposedly upholding the law Only
in mad, mad Britain How the Irish must be laughing at our stupidity for kow-towing to people whom the Irish have told to get lost!++And has the NHS only just woken up to the fact that most of our Doctors now work Mon to Fri, 9 to 5?
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