Pay off on resignation, unbelievable

29 Feb 2012

Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

29 Feb 2012

Quote by HnS
Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

You must know by now that M.P.s play by a different set of rules to ordinary folk. I'm just amazed they have not got seperate carriageways on the roads just for them, rather like in the old Soviet Union.
John

29 Feb 2012

John,
But after the expenses scandal, you'd of thought some of these 'perks' would have been scrapped as well
banghead

29 Feb 2012

Quote by HnS
Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.

as is his right to do so. :thumbup:

Quote by HnS
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.

and he has obviusly :thumbup: as is his right to do :notes:

Quote by HnS
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.

what difference does he make as to how much money he has dunno

if he is entitled to it what right does anyone have to say he cannot based on your arguement :dunno:
george michael is worth 70 million pounds, but would still expect to get paid for his next record. the money one earns is irrelevant. :dunno:

Quote by HnS
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:

tabled a bill? that is great, let us see how many MP's back that bill eh? not many i bet and why would they? i wonder if your good self was entitled to that sum of money for which you was perfectly entitled to, would take it. i know i would.:thumbup:

Quote by HnS
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

because otherwise he probably would have been suspended from his position as energy secretary, as a court case was looming. had he only been suspended, as far as i am aware he would still have been entitled to his energy secretary's salary. now if that is true and i beleeve it is, then by accepting the , he has done us all a favour as six months of energy secretary's salary, would have been far more than that. innocent

of course some peeple who are not in that envious position of getting that kind of payoff for resigning, would always be a little jealous of that possibly :dunno:
remember though, he has resigned to cleer his name as he is pleading not guilty. he in my opinion has done the decent thing as to continue with the energy secretary's job would have ment that he could not have done the job to the best of his ability, with a court case coming up. seems like a perfectly decent thing to do from where i am sitting. bravo :thumbup:

29 Feb 2012

Innocent until proven guilty?

29 Feb 2012

Quote by browning
Innocent until proven guilty?

Browning,
re his 'traffic' charge, then yes.
Re claiming public money for resigning, then they shouldn't be able to do this as MPs

29 Feb 2012

Quote by HnS
Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

Would be interesting to find out whether Mandelson ( twice), Blunkett etc claimed their severence pay and if they did, why John Mann didn't table his bill then.
In edit......here's the answer to Mandelson!

29 Feb 2012

Quote by Max777
Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

Would be interesting to find out whether Mandelson ( twice), Blunkett etc claimed their severence pay and if they did, why John Mann didn't table his bill then.
In edit......here's the answer to Mandelson!

Whats good for the goose!

29 Feb 2012

Quote by Bluefish2009
Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

Would be interesting to find out whether Mandelson ( twice), Blunkett etc claimed their severence pay and if they did, why John Mann didn't table his bill then.
In edit......here's the answer to Mandelson!

Whats good for the goose!
and the answer to David Blunkett and Alan Milburn.

Seems it's quite the norm, although it would only appear to upset Mr Mann when it's non Labour ministers doing the claiming

29 Feb 2012

Quote by Max777
Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is claiming a £17,000 pay-off after leaving the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice.
The Cabinet Office confirmed Mr Huhne would receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary. Ministers are entitled to such payouts when they leave, but these are not automatic and the MP must claim them.
Seems that it isn't as if he needs the money either as Mr Huhne is thought to be a millionaire several times over, having made a fortune in the City before entering parliament.
Bravo to Labour MP John Mann, who has tabled a bill banning such severance payments.
:thumbup:
Don't know about you, but if some one resigns of their own volition in any job why should they get a payout ?

Would be interesting to find out whether Mandelson ( twice), Blunkett etc claimed their severence pay and if they did, why John Mann didn't table his bill then.
In edit......here's the answer to Mandelson!

Whats good for the goose!
and the answer to David Blunkett and Alan Milburn.

Seems it's quite the norm, although it would only appear to upset Mr Mann when it's non Labour ministers doing the claiming
How strange :huh:

29 Feb 2012

That Mr Mann chooses to table this motion now,does not make the point invalid,it does suggest a degree of opportunism, but that's the game ... shall we now make a list of Tory M.P.'s who were careerist opportunists ?? I'll start with Winston Churchill
obfuscation ...there's a word
disingenuous ... that's another
It would appear that one does not have to be in parliament to understand either.
HnS yes it's a fucking disgrace,it was when Mandelson and Blunkett and any number of former ministers of any persuasion took it and it is now ....Mr Mann (loving that name) is to be thanked for bringing it to our attention

29 Feb 2012

Quote by Staggerlee_BB
That Mr Mann chooses to table this motion now,does not make the point invalid,it does suggest a degree of opportunism, but that's the game ... shall we now make a list of Tory M.P.'s who were careerist opportunists ?? I'll start with Winston Churchill
obfuscation ...there's a word
disingenuous ... that's another
It would appear that one does not have to be in parliament to understand either.
HnS yes it's a fucking disgrace,it was when Mandelson and Blunkett and any number of former ministers of any persuasion took it and it is now ....Mr Mann (loving that name) is to be thanked for bringing it to our attention

Like you, never knew they could.
Don't care which Party or Minister, it's a disgrace

1 Mar 2012

Quote by Staggerlee_BB
That Mr Mann chooses to table this motion now,does not make the point invalid,it does suggest a degree of opportunism, but that's the game ... shall we now make a list of Tory M.P.'s who were careerist opportunists ?? I'll start with Winston Churchill
obfuscation ...there's a word
disingenuous ... that's another
It would appear that one does not have to be in parliament to understand either.
HnS yes it's a fucking disgrace,it was when Mandelson and Blunkett and any number of former ministers of any persuasion took it and it is now ....Mr Mann (loving that name) is to be thanked for bringing it to our attention

I'm in agreement with you that's it's a disgrace that they are able to claim severance pay. The point I was making was the double standards of John Mann ( you call it opportunism) . I would have been a lot more impressed had he raised the matter when it was his own ministers claiming their pay offs.

1 Mar 2012

Quote by Max777
That Mr Mann chooses to table this motion now,does not make the point invalid,it does suggest a degree of opportunism, but that's the game ... shall we now make a list of Tory M.P.'s who were careerist opportunists ?? I'll start with Winston Churchill
obfuscation ...there's a word
disingenuous ... that's another
It would appear that one does not have to be in parliament to understand either.
HnS yes it's a fucking disgrace,it was when Mandelson and Blunkett and any number of former ministers of any persuasion took it and it is now ....Mr Mann (loving that name) is to be thanked for bringing it to our attention

I'm in agreement with you that's it's a disgrace that they are able to claim severance pay. The point I was making was the double standards of John Mann ( you call it opportunism) . I would have been a lot more impressed had he raised the matter when it was his own ministers claiming their pay offs.
a balance view is always a problem when presented to an unbalanced audience max :thumbup::thumbup:

1 Mar 2012

Quote by Lizaleanrob
That Mr Mann chooses to table this motion now,does not make the point invalid,it does suggest a degree of opportunism, but that's the game ... shall we now make a list of Tory M.P.'s who were careerist opportunists ?? I'll start with Winston Churchill
obfuscation ...there's a word
disingenuous ... that's another
It would appear that one does not have to be in parliament to understand either.
HnS yes it's a fucking disgrace,it was when Mandelson and Blunkett and any number of former ministers of any persuasion took it and it is now ....Mr Mann (loving that name) is to be thanked for bringing it to our attention

I'm in agreement with you that's it's a disgrace that they are able to claim severance pay. The point I was making was the double standards of John Mann ( you call it opportunism) . I would have been a lot more impressed had he raised the matter when it was his own ministers claiming their pay offs.
a balance view is always a problem when presented to an unbalanced audience max :thumbup::thumbup:
Rare though it is for me to use these but.....:laughabove::laughabove::laughabove::laughabove::laughabove::laughabove:

1 Mar 2012

poblem is, it's in the rules. even in small companies, things are claimed for that should never be. whether it be meals, hotels or what ever. lets all look at our expence claims. trouble is, it's allowed. wrongly but?