Council austerity not a problem for outgoing Chief Executive
One thing not threatened by any cuts is the fat cat pension of Bristol City Council’s interim Chief Executive GRAHAM ‘SIMPLE’ SIMS.
So keen is incoming Mayor GEORGE FERGUSON to be rid of the bumbling timeserver, he’s agreed – despite Sims only having worked 36 years – to sign him off with the equivalent of forty years’ service so he can get a full gold-plated pension when he takes retirement in March. Quite a nice little earner in the age of austerity for the £150k a year bureaucrat.
It’s yet another piece of good fortune for this chronically over-promoted middle manager Sims. When BRADFORD SUN QUEEN Jan Ormondroyd swanned into Bristol in 2008 to become Chief Executive, the first thing she did was get rid of Sims’s Housing Department boss IAN CRAWLEY, whose above average intellect and competence was considered a dangerous threat in the court of the Sun Queen. It was into this vacuum that the hopelessly lightweight yes-man Sims stepped, to hoover up a £120k salary as well as promotion for fawning over Jan and her strategic leadership friends.
Fast forward two years to 2010 and Jan’s sidekick and pathetic wannabe enforcer JON HOUSE, the former cop turned local authority Deputy Chief Executive, had to urgently enforce his own speedy exit to avoid an embarrassing scandal. And who should pop up to pick up the pieces, as well as a tasty pay rise? Yes – Graham Sims!
By mid-2012 Jan finally had to throw in the towel herself after four years of high spending and low achieving. But who should get the top job (solely on the basis of not being weird, provably bent or Finance boss WILL GODFREY)? Yes, it’s our man Graham – once again on hand to collect a nice little salary bump, now boosting him up to £150k a year. Very handy indeed when you’re only fit for retirement and on a final salary pension scheme.
Following this cast of horrors, we can only speculate on the calibre of candidate GORGEOUS GEORGE has in mind for the Chief Operating Officer position he plans to replace the Chief Executive with.
One thing is certain, though – someone will be (red) trousering a pretty penny. Here’s to austerity!
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this article is misleading, poorly written and short sighted. Jooohn Ag go fuck yourself u piece of crap scumbag! How dare u write such slanderous dribble, insulting text in your article opens the door for me to make such comments. Timeserver and simple, jog on pal, WIND YOUR KNECK IN!
This article is bullshit, clueless and short sighted. How dare you type such slander, you are a scumbag mate, misinformed, just another media outlet typing dribble, wind your kneck in and report on something relevant? To say these things so misinformed, calling on words like simple, bumbling time server, so clueless your ignorance is only out-weighed by your cheek. Quick to make pathetic claims and use pathetic name calling, first time I have seen this publication and its the last time I wud ever come here, go fuck yourself. 36 years of hard work for this amazing city, keep your nose out of it, scumbag. Hw about you invest in a pension scheme yourself, then you wouldn’t have to be here writing your bullshit.
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