“mr banks, my i sggest you as somebdy to chck your lettrs before ging to print so to spk as thn you may find an emplyer who cn read you cd........”

“This is imminent and will only affect lower paid staff. The highly paid bureaucrats will remain. The culture of nepotism will continue, and we will be paying the bill until they start hiring some professionals.”

“Sorry forgot that one
COG = Commissioning
Officers
group”

“COG?
IWPWSUAASIE (I wish people would stop using acronyms and speak in English).
I find it a PITA (pain in the ....)”

“Why can't the government get the able bodied people who are on long term benefits doing jobs in the civil service to earn their keep. For instance those who have never had a job can do the basic tasks of litter picking, cleaning the streets, etc (which don't need any training). Anyone who has worked before with experience in certain areas can do those tasks such as keeping the parks tidy, office duties, etc, etc. Why should people on long term benefit be given money for nothing (including immigrants who can claim benefits after working for 12 months - which Labour want to change to 3 months)”

“Can I have a job please!! well with the new goverment about to come in to power lets hope torbay can take advantage of the workfair idea and give the massive unemplyed the council jobs litter picking grass citting painting the childrens parks ect ect, i for one am unemplyed and would love a little extra to be able to do something again so bored. and think of the thousands others like me bored who want to work, and now 200 jobs you want to save money on cool me do them and not stike for greed just want to work not nice being a local and not in work.”

“TDC = Torbay District Council

JE = Job Evaluation

JVC = Joint Venture Company”

“Blimey! two well thought out and articulated letters instead of the usual garbage from the usual one-cells. Well done you two!
Its a shame I got lost in the TLA's of the first letter but i'm sure it all makes sense.
If I 'worked' for the council I wouldn't be too worried about losing my job - all you need to do is cry like babies and those-that-be cave in and give you back all you were about to lose and a little bit extra on top. A bit like the recent binmen fiasco.
p.s. TLA - Three Letter Acronym”

“Perhaps savings could be made in respect of these fat pensions taken by local council officials such as Betty Raikes. This is not just true of Torbay of course but applies all over the nation.

One newspaper reported that 33% of council tax went towards pensions, and although this exact same figure may not apply to Torbay one can see that it is the same old story as depicted by George Orwell in 'Animal Farm' when the pigs helped themselves to the very best because they reported themselves to be so bright and brainy.

Legends in their own lunchtime would be nearer the mark while newspaper hacks in some towns even write feature articles on these people that are an insult to the intelligence of those who work within the sphere of realities at ones local town hall.

For the last 22 years there has been a shift in thinking whereby we are very much indoctrinated into believing that enormous salaries have to be paid to a few in order to get the best when in reality those taking such renumeration are in almost in all cases quite mediocre and part of our UK mediocrity.

Just as the working class were expected to touch their forlocks in the 19th century when the boss appeared, today we are all expected chant a mantra saying 'we much cough up all this money because these council officials are so spectacular'.”

“It is very interesting that Liz Raikes states that 200 jobs could go and that 25% of the budget could disappear, all this at the same time that her Executive Heads are telling their staff not to worry about the JE as they will rewrite job descriptions to get back the pay that staff lost in the JE. Where will that money come from in this time of massive Public Sector spending cuts? The majority of TDC staff still have the opinion that the public spending cuts have nothing to do with them.
Until the Executive Heads at Torbay Council stop justifying there own positions by the very old method of ¿I have lots of staff therefore I must be important¿ and until the COG, Liz Raikes, Caroline Taylor ect stop allowing the Executive heads to just take on more people and start getting justifications TDC will never work. It always has been and always will be financially unsubstanable and the sooner it moves back to Devon County Council the better. We would straight away get rid of a load of senior managers all who are on £50000 to £150000 as the would be duplication of staff with Devon County Council. TDC is a 2 star council and Devon is a 4 star council so again a strong incentive to move back, the only question would be do Devon want us? After all TDC made overtures to the Torbay Health trust recently about mergers and were told no thanks. I cannot see South Hams or Teignbridge rushing to setup partnerships with us in the way they have with each other so again it looks like nobody wants to work with TDC, wonder why? The new JVC contract with May Gurney, at a share split of 20% for the council and 80% FOR May Gurney, started out as a 51% for the council and a 49% for whoever was the partner. The only way TDC could get anyone to work with them was to give away the control.”