Another 'job for the boy' ???

Doesn't the blond khazi mop-head have enough 'spokespersons' ??? - what's wrong with Dominic Cummings doing it - we're already paying him, we don't need to add another £100K to Downing Street's paybill. do we ???


Boris Johnson starts search for ‘£100,000 per year’ spokesperson to front White House-style televised briefings
Successful candidate will represent PM to ‘an audience of millions on a daily basis, across the main broadcast channels and social media’



Mr Johnson said he would appear at the podium on occasions ( EPA )
The Conservatives have started searching for a new £100,000-a-year spokesperson for Boris Johnson to front White House-style press briefings televised to the country.

The prime minister revealed earlier this month the government was going to “have a go” at the live briefings following the public interest in No 10’s daily coronavirus press conferences, which took place during the first months of the pandemic.

“People have liked a more direct, detailed information from the government about what is going on,” he said. “And I think that they’ve actually particularly liked out brilliant scientists and medical advisers, possibly more than the politicians to be frank.”

Mr Johnson, who said he would appear at the podium on occasions, added: “We do think that people want direct engagement and want stuff from us, and so we’re going to have a go at that.”

The advertisement for the vacancy, posted on the Conservatives’ LinkedIn page on Tuesday evening, describes the “unique opportunity” to work at the heart of government and “communicate with the nation on behalf of the prime minister” from the autumn. The role will not be appointed by the civil service so that the spokesperson can address questions of a political nature, including Labour Party policy.

The successful candidate will represent the government and Mr Johnson to “an audience of millions on a daily basis, across the main broadcast channels and social media, and to have the chance to influence and shape public opinion”, it added.

Applicants for the job are required to email their CVs “and a statement of suitability” to No 10’s director of communications Lee Cain by the middle of August and undergo security clearance.

It says hopefuls would need to be “an experienced and confident media operator who would enjoy working on camera with senior ministers, political advisers, officials and journalists; who would relish the challenge and pace of televised briefings, and who has a strong grasp of foreign and domestic policy issues”.

“The successful candidate will become a trusted political adviser to the prime minister and member of the senior team at Downing Street, reporting into the prime minister’s director of communications,” the adverts adds.

While the job advert states that salary will be “determined based on experience”, The Daily Telegraph reported the role will come with a £100,000 per year pay packet.

At the time, Labour MP Chris Bryant criticised the proposals, saying: “I don’t like this idea of televised daily press briefings from Downing Street. We’re a parliamentary democracy, we have a prime minister not a president. So announcements should be in and to parliament.”

It is expected the daily, off-camera briefing from the prime minister’s official spokesperson, who is a civil servant, will continue alongside the new White House-style press conference hosted at Downing Street.

For many years the White House has held similar briefings fronted by the administration’s press secretary and US presidents have often made appearances at them. Kayleigh McEnany is the fourth person to hold the role since Donald Trump entered the Oval Office in 2016, her predecessors being Sarah Sanders, Sean Spicer and Josh Earnest.

Ms Sanders, who left the role last year, once displayed her loyalties to Mr Trump, telling a religious television network that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president”.

 

Oh please, - don't tell me you're applying for work with the blond khazi mop-head ???

 

Rightly or wrongly, one should always be true to their Conviction and Conscience

 

I always have been, not many can say the same though !!!

 

Boris gives another job to one of his dismally failed 'nasty party' ministers !!! £100.000 for just seven hours a week work !!!



Chris Grayling handed £100,000 ports adviser position for seven hours a week

PA
Sep 17th 2020 2:23AM

Chris Grayling has secured an adviser role for some of the UK’s top ports which will see him paid £100,000 per year for seven hours work each week, according to official documents.

Parliament’s register of members’ financial interests showed the former transport secretary, who has been involved in a number of controversies during his time in politics, to be a strategic adviser to Hutchison Ports Europe since the start of September.

He will continue in the position for the company, which counts Felixstowe and Harwich among its terminals, until the end of August 2021.


The Port of Felixstowe (Mike Page/PA)
In a letter dated July, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments acknowledged there was a “perceived risk you would have influence across Government/Whitehall that could provide an unfair advantage” to Hutchison.

But the appointment was approved by the watchdog after the Tory MP gave a reassurance he would not advise the firm on Brexit opportunities or commercial maritime matters.

The Epsom and Ewell MP resigned as transport secretary when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019.

He sparked outrage when it emerged he had awarded a £13.8 million contract to Seaborne Freight – a company with no ships – to mitigate the potential consequences of a no-deal Brexit.

A total of £100 million in contracts was awarded to three companies – Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne – but they were ultimately scrapped at an estimated cost of £56.6 million after Brexit was delayed.


Brittany Ferries (Brittany Ferries/PA)
He was also criticised for the weeks of chaos following changes to train timetables in May 2018, with an investigation into the fiasco by the Office of Rail and Road finding “nobody took charge”.

He came under fire for his decision while justice secretary to part-privatise the probation service, which ended up costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.

Other controversial moments include an attempt to cut legal aid to prisoners and a £6 million contract to train prison staff in Saudi Arabia despite its appalling human rights record and use of capital punishment.

He was also criticised for awarding a contract to Carillion to run prison maintenance when it was clear the firm was going bust.

He was also caught up in the Workfare scheme, under which claimants were forced to work for free or lose their benefits, and was criticised when he knocked a cyclist off his bike with a car door after complaining about cycle lanes.

 

He failed as Transport Minister and left our northern rail services in an absolute shambles . His replacement Grant Schaps had to sort his mess out .

So he couldn't look after all the transport system as a whole so I don't understand why they think he can look after a port.

 

Here we go again - another scumbag 'nasty party' appointee !!!

Former Sainsbury’s boss to take on key NHS Test and Trace role

PA
Sep 29th 2020 6:06AM

The former chief executive of Sainsbury’s is to take over as testing director at NHS Test and Trace.

Mike Coupe, who retired as chief executive officer of Sainsbury’s at the end of May, is set to replace Sarah-Jane Marsh who is returning to her post as chief executive of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace and is interim executive chairwoman of the National Institute for Health Protection, said in an email to staff that Mr Coupe “will bring a wealth of experience in large scale supply chains, logistics and digital transformation”.


Baroness Dido Harding (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
It is understood he will be in the role until Christmas.

Baroness Harding said in the email, seen by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), that “Sarah-Jane has led the team with unparalleled drive, compassion, and humour” and the agency had been “incredibly privileged to be able to ‘borrow’ Sarah-Jane for the last five months”.

She added: “There will be plenty of time over the next month to say thank you for the extraordinary job she has done and in the meantime I am confident she will be pushing us all hard to ensure we hit our 500k target (of daily testing capacity at the end of October), just as the testing team have hit every other target that they have ever been set.”

In 2018, Mr Coupe was forced to apologise after being caught singing Broadway hit We’re In The Money in between media interviews about a merger with supermarket giant Asda.

Earlier this month, Ms Marsh issued an apology to the thousands of people unable to get a test for Covid-19.

 

Don't tell me . We all have to start having barcodes on our foreheads !!