They really might have done their home work properly (more lazy hacks
I suppose) . How much then is Mandelson sitting on? He's not only
got a ministerial salary and perks but a whopping pay off from
Brussels too.
And they go on about Fred Goodwin's pension ! There was something
about pots, kettles and blackness and throwing stones in glass house,
I remember. And ALL of it on our backs.
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NEWS of the WORLD 23.3.09
EU chiefs' £1million pay-off
Golden goodbyes after as little as a year in top jobs
By Jamie Lyons
EU fat-cat beauraucrats will pick up £1 million golden parachutes to
cushion the blow when they quit Brussels this year.
With 20 of Europe's molly-coddled 27 Commissioners set to stand down
in November, the total payoff pot will hit an astonishing £23.8 million.
Even after just one year in the job, British Commissioner Baroness
Ashton would pocket a lottery-win size package worth £1/4 million,
plus £8,000-a-year pension, if called back to London.
Last night Lorraine Mullally of Open Europe-a think tank urging EU
reform-fumed: "While taxpayers struggle in the recession and worry
about losing jobs, their money is going to pamper grossly overpaid
eurocrats with eye-watering salaries.
"It's outrageous this team of unelected Brussels civil servants walk
away with these vast sums. This is totally unjustified."
The leavers' massive payout includes HALF their six-figure salaries
for three years AFTER standing down.
PLUS a resettlement allowance of up to £21,000 to help adjust to life
after Brussels. PLUS huge pension pots worth hundreds of thousands of
pounds.
Two vice-presidents of the Commission-Margot Wallström and Gunter
Verheugen-do particularly well. They are in line for pension funds of
£1,787,950.
And all the eurocrats have enjoyed a cushy job with perks that would
make even disgraced bankers blush-£572 monthly entertainment
allowance, cut-rate income tax, removal expenses and even fancy
health benefits like acupuncture and mud baths.
Monday, 23 March 2009
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