Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Cavey wrote:
What can you say?
For me, a good deal of this and other stuff like it comes back to the unaccountability (and all-round uselessness) of the public sector - but these views don't go down too well around here.
Sigh
It's not like private sector supremos haven't fucked up and then walked off with massive payoffs or anything.
Anyway, agree on the original premise that he really should resign. Guy's got some serious brass neck.
Hey, fab to see you mate. How are things?
I daresay we've done this to death over the years (
) but here's my take on it anyway. It's impossible for me to conceive of a greater failure than this one, at least based on what I know, namely 1400 kids abused over 10 years or so (enough to fill five classrooms chock full of different kids for each of those 10 consecutive years, simply unimaginable). It just seems utterly inconceivable given all the feedback of information that apparently occurred and the number of public servants involved?
By way of random comparison and off the top of my head, that geezer who'd been at Tesco, man and boy, was very publicly given "The Spanish Elbow" just because they weren't making as big profits as they'd have liked?
To my mind, there can't honestly be any serious suggestion that, in general terms, the private and public sectors are just as performance-driven, just as hire-and-fire as each other. That just seems absurd to me.
How many people were prosecuted, fired, or even just carpeted over the N.Staffs scandal, which IIRC had hundreds if not thousands of patients dying of thirst/lack of even the most basic care, with them all blaming each other? None at all? AFAIK it only came to the public's eye at all due to the persistent efforts of whistle-blower(s).
This guy is still in his job. Does anyone honestly think that'd still be the case were we talking about a similar, catastrophic-scale failure, over many years and the very job he was supposed to be doing, if we were talking about a private company? His arse surely wouldn't touch the floor?
What about all those police whose prime responsibility it was to protect these kids? I remind you again, this is the job they're paid to do and the duty is theirs to perform above all other considerations? How many of them do we think will face gross negligence, dereliction of duty charges and/or major disciplinary etc. over this, either rank and file or officers?
My guess is that bog all will happen, same as for N.Staffs as I understand it (to date). It would appear, at least to my eyes, that this is "how they roll" as it were...