Is that an audible cheer we hear coming from the Council House?
The Blogger’s received this email from so many sources that it seems like half the council’s staff are just sitting about waiting for senior officers to finally do the decent thing and fuck off out of our lives:
There it is. Not even six months of The Blogger yet and they’re already throwing in the towel. Not that Gurney would have a towel to throw in as he’d have privatised it two years ago with the help of a series of management consultants. Perhaps he could throw in the receipt for the towel instead? Along with the bill for the consultants and a ‘best value’ review proving that privatised towels when thrown provide an improved customer experience of up to forty per cent?
You’ve got to admire his front though haven’t you? “There is no right time to leave,” the £130k a year waster claims. Maybe not. But there is a lucrative time for him to leave, which is after he’s served at least three years on this, his most excessive salary yet. He will then receive his very generous public sector pension at that finishing salary rate.
And how long has Pig Fucker Gurney been in Bristol? Why three years of course. What a coincidence…
As for the hopeless case’s achievements, amounting to “five Beacon Council awards and numerous Chartermarks”, what can we say? You’ve earned the right to put a few shitty, meaningless logos on your notepaper. Whoopee!!! What a useful life you’ve led.
But no mention of the mounting chaos he’s left our schools in is there? Especially the load of semi-private city academies that have randomly cropped up on his watch that in turn have created the multi-million pound half-empty rebuilt new PFI schools currently being given away to right wing religious nutjobs while we foot the bill for the next 25 years.
Then there’s that extra £6m Gurney and his overpaid sidekick Heather Tomlinson blew on the “flagship” Redland Green School. We don’t see any little logos on letterheads representing these multi-million pound balls-ups do we?
No mention either from Gurney about social services. What about the multi-million pound debt run-up there on his watch? No mention of scrapped day care services, scrapped home care services or the fact that the concept of care has now totally disappeared from Bristol’s Social Services altogether.
In fact what is it that this clown’s supposed to have achieved? Is there now a charter mark available for bending over and being boned up the backside on a regular basis by big business property developers?
Perhaps The Blogger could be the first to tell Pig Fucker Gurney to fuck off back to Hampshire or Berkshire or wherever it is he came from and to please not bother coming back? (He could even spend his retirement in the shires campaigning for road charging to keep chavscum off the road so he and the missus can get to Tescos in Winchester a bit quicker)
He was overpaid, underperforming and nobody here ever even wanted him – except for a few stupid Labour politicians because they thought he was more stupid than them. . . Which they might have been right about. . .
And finally; a piece of bad news: apparently Helen Holland is “plan[ing] for a seamless transition to a new Chief Executive.”
God help us. What have they got in mind for us this time?
Get your facts straight idiot, he’s been there four years not three. Your ‘sources’ obviously aren’t they great. Or else you’re just stupid. Or possibly both.
hi nick
Is it beyong your facile comprehension that any other than Nick himself could recognise that the author of this blog is an ignorant goon, with more than one axe to grind and far too much free time on his hands? Why doesn’t he just use the internet for looking at ‘naked’ pics of Britney Spears, like every other simple minded fool?
Oh come on Mimi, anything that keeps Bristol’s very own ‘grumpy old man’ off the streets has to be applauded, it’s not as if we have to take him seriously…
Perhaps, but she’s got a point. You wonder if the ‘author’ of this blog ever took anytime to actually do his research into Gurney? I have and been pleasantly surprised at what I found, some people aren’t born fat-cats you know. I can’t help feeling that the ranting that emenates from this blog stems only partly from an out-dated socio-political anarchist stance and partly from jealousy that other people are able to drag themselves out of the gutter.
Peepo and Mimi,
Or alternatively you could pull your heads out of each otther’s backsides and actually deal with the fact that Gurney has been absolutely bloody useless. Or is that too complex for you?
This city has rubbish public transport, very poor schools, a lousy CPA rating and its cultural life has just imploded.
All on Gurney’s watch. And he’s got paid handsomely for it.
I agree with Blogger. The man is the Chief Executive of BCC, yet he’s not responsible for the shit he’s leaving behind? What bollocks.
You may have done some “research on Gurney” and been “pleasantly surprised”, but I for one couldn’t give a fuck if Nick is Santa Claus himself and the Blogger sacrifices goats to Satan in his spare time. It’s not about how nice people are, it’s how they do their £130,000 jobs – or is that just a bit too difficult for you to understand?
Mind you, the kind of witless, ooh-he’s-a-nice-bloke-don’t-be-cruel attitude that you pair of shit-for-brains pillocks display, quite definitely mark you as yet another pair of useless BCC gravy-trainers.
Twats.
Tetchy, tetchy Bluebaldee…… you can’t let other peoples opinions get in the way of your bile, now can you…….
…and they can’t let the facts get in the way of their opinions, can they?
I prefer bile to sycophancy anyday….
I have plenty of bile thank you very much. But I save it for people who deserve it. Do you know what proportion of the population earns over £130k? A surprising ammount. My bile is reserved for hedge fund managers and investment bankers who are earning far in excess of 130k and receiving bonus ammounts of £5-10 MILLION – doesn’t that make you more sick, that an individual would get that handed to them for simply dealing with other rich people’s money. The fact that Gurney earns so much is by the by really. How much does the Vice Chancellor of the University make, or the Bristol MP’s? AT least you can say for tehse people that they’re *trying* to do something postive for society. No matter how much naysayers would like to detract from their acheivement. I’m not saying Gurney is perfect, far from it, but that it makes me so sad that people would wish to be so vicious towards a man who has only ever worked in the public sector and has always tried to make a positive difference. I really would save my hatred (which in itself is a nasty, destructive emotion) for those who genuinely deserve it.
Oh, well that’s all right then.
He works in the public sector so whether or not he’s been a hopeless failure and how much he earns “is by the by.”
Let’s all celebrate dismal failure. Perhaps he should be recommended for a frigging knighthood – arise Sir Nicholas of Gurney for services to…umm….errmm….hmmm…screwing up public services in Bristol!
It’s the Gurneys and Tomlinsons of this world who make the decisions that majorly impact on people’s lives. Everyone’s entitled to make mistakes but if they don’t make a positive difference when they accept such important roles, and are paid accordingly, then they should sod off to wherever they came from and stop lying about having “made a positive contribution.”
If this blog entry was about the Chief Exec of BAE, or a private equity boss or whatever other overpaid, undertaxed private sector wanker, I’d be more vociferous in my bile/disdain. But it’s not, it’s about Nick Gurney and his failure to drag this city’s public services out of the gutter.
If you think that ranking one of the wealthiest cities in the UK with the lowest possible assessment in overall public services and council competence is in any way acceptable, then there’s absolutely no hope for you and whichever organisation employs you.
I’ll reserve my respect for those who work on the frontline, under extremely difficult circumstances, for bugger-all pay and even less job security.
I’d never say Gurney deserves more respect than frontline staff, that’s just crazy talk. But I stand by the opinion that there are better people to take your bile on and that he’s probably sat laughing his arse off at all of this somewhere. Civil servants aren’t the most exciting of people, they don’t do what they do for the fame, the glory or even, beleive it or not, the money. SO to have such giddy heights of ‘infamy’ on this blog must be thrilling for him. I’m sure he’s gutted at the thought that once he leaves you’ll find some new boy or girl to pick on. The mean nasty blog bullies won’t love him anymore. It’s funny really, I’m pretty sure none of you would have the guts to say in public or to anyones face half the rubbish you come out with on here. Not as big, clever or brave as you like to think you are in the faceless world of the internet. Playing all those online fantasy games must really give you an over inflated sense of importance…
Bluebaldee and the Blogger are spot on. Gurney and Tomlinson are overpaid and should be out of here. Mimi sounds like a defender of some part of the City Council. Maybe he / she even works for BCC! Huh, Mimi?
482,000 people in the UK earn over £100k. That equates to about 0.8% of the population (the majority of whom are middle class, middle aged white males).
This means about 3,200 people (overwhelmingly white males) in Bristol earn over £100k. Hardly “a surprising proportion”.
As for telling Gurney what we think to his face. If he wants to arrange the meeting and face the public he’s studiously avoided for four years… Bring it on!
How come we’re gutless because some cunt we’ve paid £150k a year has alway refused to meet us or explain himself?
. . . That’s city council executive logic I guess.
Hahaha, me work at BCC that’s hilarious. I work in the bid bad city of London doing exactly the kind of peanuts front line job you so righteously defend. So there. Did you think I was some fox-hunting double-barrelled namer? Sorry to dissapoint.
And surely if you actually *did* meet la gurney you’d have to break your veil of secrecy, oooh exciting!
Christ, Mimi – you’re so wide of the mark it’s embarassing.
Have you read this blog entry? It’s about the outgoing Chief Exec of Bristol claiming that he’s made a positive contribution to the City of Bristol when he so clearly hasn’t.
I’ll repeat it again as you seem to have a real problem with grasping extremely simple statements: There may well be more deserving targets for my “bile”, but this one’s about Nick Gurney and his hopeless failure, therefore he’s the recipient.
And no, he’s not sat somewhere on his fat arse laughing his head off at this. Shall I tell you why?
Because Gurney is yet another in a long line of faceless, superannuated timeservers parachuted into Bristol whose sole contribution is to leave a bigger mess than when they joined. He couldn’t give a shit.
He will never have to use the services that he’s run down. His decisions, and those decisions to which he is “accountable” (is he fuck) will never personally impact on him. He knows nothing of the heritage and culture of the city he purports to lead. He shares none of the passion and ambition for Bristol.
It’s the same for his hopeless sidekick in the education department, Heather Tomlinson, yet another failure swanning into a city she knows nothing about and fucking up our children’s education.
I note that you live and work in London. So, you must know all about Bristol. You must be a regular little faux Bristolian that knows this city inside out.
You’re not and you don’t.
You can’t possibly know that trying to get an audience with Kim Jong Il is easier than getting one with Nick Gurney. So what the fuck are you on about stating that I’d never say anything that I’ve typed here to his face? I can categorically assure you that I bloody well would. Why? Because I’m a Bristolian who’s friends and family continue to experience the burden of shit social services, public transport, educational provision and cultural life that Gurney and his clownish cohorts have so pointedly failed to improve during their tenure.
So don’t come that “you’d never say that to his face” bollocks with me, especially as you seem to be pontificating from a position of supreme ignorance.
And also try not to trot out tired old stereotypes about “the faceless world of the intranet” and “online fantasy games” about blog users. If it hadn’t escaped your attention this is called the “Bristol Blogger” which allows a forum for frank discussion and ranting about issues of concern to Bristolians, a forum that is not available on other media. I think the name just might give it away.
I note that your on here too. Personally, I don’t use the internet to play online games or access pornography, however, I strongly suspect that you spend much of your spare time hunched over online pictures of senior public servants, frantically pleasuring yourself to climax.
hahahaha! you are all such losers, it’s hilarious. This blog post is weeks old. Get a fucking grip and grown up.
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I refer to my earlier post on “Meet the boss”.
The blog post may well be weeks old, but the issues that it addresses are very much ongoing.
I realise that any kind of discussion is way beyond your clearly limited abilities so, please Peephole, either get back to work and earn the money that the rest of us pay you in tax, or make a contribution to the discussion you sycophantic twat.
Dear me, Bluebaldee, you really need to get a grip on that temper, an old fart like you will get a heart attack with your blood presure like that……
Ah, but Jografer old fellow, I strongly suspect that I’ve seen far less summers than yourself.
I thank you for your kind consideration viz my health, but I’m sure that my relatively young ticker can take it.
In fact, a good rant is rather therapeutic…
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