Poor Mark Bilsborough. He has had a very rough deal indeed from Swale Borough Council in Kent. I last met Mark at a conference a while ago and his fine facial features were sadly drawn. In fact he has been absent from the tiller of his council since just before Christmas two years ago. There were unsubstantiated allegations made against him by other members of staff. He was subsequently sent on gardening leave - a costly excercise for the council: they paid him £256,000 for doing precisely nothing. And then there were some other big bills for lawyers. All in all Swale Council (or rather its council tax payers) will have spent more than £400,000 getting rid of its Chief Executive. Now for that sort of money one could conclude a deal with one of the world's biggest and most succesful IT firms and hearld a brave new dawn in public services. That's what we did with over £400,000 of your money. Well actually Alan Jones did most of the hard work. And what a Trojan he is. Losing Alan at any price would be a tragedy. So let us all put aside any unsubstantiated tittle-tattle, let us disregard the mutterings of those cowardly organisational terrorists and get on with it - like Alan does.
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We don't want them to come ... we want them to GO cheap. All you need is bottle.
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