THE BS AWARDS 2012
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UPDATE AND RESULT! The winner is ……….
The well-deserved outright winner of the BS AWARDS 2012 for the biggest bullshitter in David Cameron’s BIG SHIT SOCIETY is……..
Mr Gavin ‘Delboy’ Wheeldon of ALS
…… for setting up a firm in his bedroom and hoodwinking government ministers into awarding him with a £300 million contract – a decision so disastrous it brought Britain’s criminal justice system to a halt:
How Delboy hoodwinked ministers out of £300m
Here are the runners-up:
2. Ms Emma Harrison from A4e – for accusing the taxpayer of bullying her into paying herself £8.6m of their money after her firm’s success rate for helping unemployed people into work was found to be lower than if they had looked for a job all by themselves:
Harrison: taxpayers bullied me into paying myself £8.6m of their money
- 3. Mr Nick Buckles from G4S – for completely failing to provide enough security staff for the Olympics despite his firm being paid £236 million of taxpayers money. And he still didn’t seem to have enough to get himself a decent haircut:
G4S Boss Nick Buckles Admits His Mullet Is `Humiliating Shambles’
4. Mr Ali Parsa of Circle Healthcare – the former Goldman Sachs banker who’s just received a pay-off of £400,000 when he stood down as CEO less than a year into a ten-year contract to run a Cambridgeshire NHS hospital – a deal which has already left the hospital £4m in debt:
Privately-run NHS Hinchingbrooke Hospital boss got £400k pay-off
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Cameron’s “Big Society” is one where the biggest bullshitters use copious amounts of BS to persuade government ministers to hand over millions of taxpayers money mostly for doing very little.
So to celebrate one of the government’s only successes, we have decided to give an award to the biggest of the big hitting bullshitters in David Cameron’s Big Shit Society.
After a process of elimination, the Pride’s Purge panel – consisting mainly of me – came up with a shortlist of four of the biggest shits who are competing for the honour of receiving the BS AWARD 2012 for services to bullshitting British taxpayers.
If you think someone else should have been included in the short-list, please feel free to put your suggestion in the comments section.
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awww, but i wanted to vote for the Atos CEO bs!!! 😉
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Oh yeah – good choice. Do you know who the CEO is?
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I have done my civic duty and duly voted.It was a close call but did so according to conscience and long held beliefs.Is there a prize giving ceremony and is it going to be an annual “event”?
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I think it is Thierry Breton
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He’s French. Does that exclude him do you think?
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I think it might have to be an annual event. Unfortunately.
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Could have separate categories possibly “Best overseas BS”
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Oh now you got me, there are so many, but I think Leveson must be in the top 3 the biggest con of all! cost taxpayers more than 5 million, and still counting! and since Leveson has been giving speeches down under, we all know what was behind the whole sham, to shut down blogs like yours and mine.
How about Lee Timmons head of Atos!! probably takes the number one spot, unless someone knows of anyone worse!
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forget annual I think a monthly event at least!!
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I would like to nominate the Adam Smith institute for a lifetime award.
Based on:
There assertion that privatisation of the NHS is good for us all
Scrapping the minimum wage equally so because the minimum wage is ‘evil’
And last but not least privatisation of the pavements is a bloody good idea as it makes sound economic sense.
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I’d like a special mention for McKinsey for overseeing the implementation of their plans to dismantle and privatise the NHS.
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Re MKinsey and bribing an independant (so called) monitor overseeing the the issue of competition in the NHS..
I think Cameron should seek guidance from the British Deaf association during that ‘listening exercise’,,
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The DWP should win awards for not checking for bogus jobs thoroughly enough.
Witness the latest application for human crash test dummies.
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/GetJob.aspx?JobID=509977
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And the winner of the bogus headline (so far )
Is the torygraph with this pile of fallacy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9745648/Britons-back-Lord-McAlpine-over-Sally-Bercow-action.html
Perhaps ‘britons’ means all britons or some britons or even ancient britons.
In which case i guess they mean maggie thatcher..
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Its under the heading ‘technology’ so maybe its about robots.
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I believe we are now post-national sovereignty, in addition to being post-democratic and post-industrialisation. Not yet post-BS though, so this ballot is still relevant.
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Perhaps they only asked robots for their opinion.
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For the past few hours i have been struggling to post links to sites that have been discussing the lord who knows what and the child abuse scandal and names of high profile ppl.. And every attempt.. To post and submit the result is the same.. The post disappears..
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We dont have a democracy..
Just an illusion of one…
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Well i dont know why that link wont post, ive tried other blogs ( all so far have been wordpress) either its a fault with wp which mesns it needs fixing or.., there is something not right.,
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Hi Tom, pls let me 1st say that all your suggestions are good but none of them were paid by taxpayer. gov’t only passes funds via CREATED FUNDING> the taxpayer pays for nothing at all IT’S A LIE that they do. Therefore the bidest S..T of all has to be G. Osborne
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Just thought i would post this, hope you dont mind.,
http://www.dailypaul.com/266149/cia-training-internet-trolls
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Thierry Breton is Chairman and CEO
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Any MP who has private health care interests who voted for NHS reform!
Any “Charity” who has been involved in workfare!
The Church of England and Wales for complaining about not being consulted when the government made their bigoted stance legal!
Anyone on the civil list, for raking millions of us and doing little more than getting their todger out in Las Vegas!
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His nobble ness lord mcscalpine who being a humbug and grasping r sole, and his kiddy fiddling relatives( allegedly)
And lord muckybrass ambulance chasers
And david smeller for his obnoxious opinion of an abuse victim.
Oh by the way its my birthday today and i cant seem to post links on wordpress blogs
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I’d like an (dis)honourable mention for Bob Blackman MP.
Here he is, not only opposing gay marriage but also calling for the reintroduction of Section 28.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/07/tory-mp-bob-blackman-cameron-should-be-re-introducing-section-28-not-letting-gays-marry/
And here he is, to the surprise of absolutely no-one, being caught out having an 11 year affair behind his wife’s back.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bob-blackman-top-tory-mp-1492423#.UM2TrzRxix8.twitter
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After reading all the nominations I think we should just nominate everyone who has anything to do with Cameron, including his wife! You know what they say about friends eh? who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl
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Atos in the dock
This should be fun
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/atos-in-the-dock/
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My vote goes to Harrison but it was close Buckles came in second…..
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WELL ALL YOUR NOMINEES HAVE BEEN TROUNCED BY THIS !!!!!
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/time-to-troll-the-tories-again/
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NOPE..SEE MY POST..
THE TORIES HAVE GONE INTO FASCIST MODE..
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TOM I think this comes under the heading COMPLETE BULLSHIT
http://hardworkingtoryfamily.tumblr.com/
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“WE’RE RAISING MORE MONEY FOR THE RICH ” says Cameron.
Check the video..
Ed sticks it to scameron.
http://cameron-cloggysmoralcompass.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/david-camerons-freudian-slip.html?m=1
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Heres some helpful information from our govt on the needs of disabled people.
The Department for Work and Pensions insist they will still be spending the same on DLA in 2015/16 as they did last year – over £13bn and that the reforms to Personal Independence Payment are important to make sure the benefit is sustainable for the future.
Minister for Disabled People, Esther McVey said: “There’s a lot of misleading stories about the impact of our welfare reforms on disabled people. The truth is, the UK continues to be a world-leader in the rights for disabled people – as so wonderfully showcased by the Paralympics.
“However too often under the current system we are spending on overpayments where people’s conditions have changed, with £630m a year on DLA alone.
“Our welfare reforms will ensure the billions we spend on benefits, better reflect today’s understanding of disability and offer the targeted support disabled people need to live independent lives.”
So, this change in circumstances..er so that cancer you may suffer from is suddenly going to go away? Or the amputated leg will grow back.. Oh sure you can get a false one , but hey thats gonna cost the ole taxpayer a few quid ennit?
And lets not forget ward and hospital closures , so that treatment you need in order to assist that change in circumstances might not be available..
Then again a change in circumstances may not be for the better. You might get worse..
Will the assessor be able to disgnose that?
Thats if they are a proper doctor, but thats the thing eh?
What if you got worse or more people got worse then they would need more money, and how will the poor economy survive?
Oh dear..all these sickies how awful.
They could on the other hand tell the media and joe bloggs that there arent any ill people at all as they are all workshy.
Hmm so next time you pass a hospital ( one that hasnt closed down) just pop in and shout ” you lazy bastards” or better still get the ‘hotel for malingerers’ closed down.
That way you can feel self righteous.
Like the minister for disabled.
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THE HARDEST WORKING FAMILY IN BRITAIN
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/meet-the-hardestworking-family-in-british-politics-8422961.html
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Just tried the link but the job has been awarded to someone, sodit, I was looking forward to working again.
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Are you sure about his wife? I mean having any thing to do with him
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Should you be insulting the bulls in this fashion, afterall, bulls are useful
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I am sure there will be others, i heard that a trainer for the sex industry has been looking for applicants..
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Ha ha! Great blog, Tom! It does feel good to name and shame these bull-shitters’. Their time will come in the grand scheme of things so in the meantime, I wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas. Bring on some footy to take our minds off all the BS’ers. lol
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DID YOU KNOW THAT PPL REFERRED TO THE DWP WORK PROGRAM ARE CALLED ‘COHORTS’ ??
i got this from wikipedia:
The cohort can be modified by censoring, i.e. excluding certain individuals from statistical calculations relating to time periods (e.g. after death) when their data would contaminate the conclusions”.
perhaps its sort of apt then??
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yes, the ATOS scumbag… for putting the genuinely disabled on low-rate while putting smack-heads on full-rate, so they can afford the smack they’re bringing back from Afghanistan. Vengence will be mine!!!
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