Another day, another tale of gross incompetence:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550282/Wife-scandal-hit-NHS-chief-overpaid-hospital-staff-1-3m-634-overpayments-handed-Birmingham-Childrens-Hospital.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

We can be sure Sarah-Jane Marsh will neither resign over this matter, nor be fired. In 2002 she was a graduate trainee, and just seven years later she was appointed the chief executive of Birmingham Children’s Hospital, on a salary of £155,000 p.a. Were there really no more experienced and better-qualified candidates for such a senior role? It beggars belief.

Our thanks to Sarah, a supporter – not Sarah Cope, we hasten to add – for bringing this June 2012 piece from HuffPo to our attention:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sarah-cope/bisexuality-bigotry-and-bindel_b_1617977.html

In the fourth paragraph there’s a reference to ‘the LBGTQQI grouping’. We respectfully ask you not to inform us what the acronym stands for.

With just 15 months left before the 7 May 2015 general election, we’re starting to spend more time reviewing the feedback received on our public consultation document, the precursor to our general election manifesto. Today we’ve added proposals on two areas we’re not covered before, transferable tax allowances and paternal leave. The proposals, along with a little associated background information, are to be found on pp 5,6 of our updated public consultation document, highlighted in yellow:

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/our-public-consultation-exercise-2/

We look forward to reading your comments on the proposals.