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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Gladly. His mother-in-law Annabel Astor (yes, she of the Astors), gave her bestest buddy Michael Green, the then chairman of Carlton Television, a sly telephone call toget him a job in PR.
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Ah, the internet, home of unfounded unprovable rumours, based on a book-plugging article by a New Statesmen reporter in the Indy. Slight problem - he started at Carlton in July 1994, and married his wife in June 1996; but let's not let facts ruin a good scurrilous libel, shall we?
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
As a side note of course, he was the one who lost the company the franchise for ITV Digital, losing the company one billion three hundred thousand pounds.
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As a side note, Carlton's consortium won the digital franchise, which became OnDigital (launched in 1998), but it later folded due to lack of subscribers.
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
But then his whole "career" has been one long nepotistic run. His entry into the CONservative party itself was arranged for him. Then there's Gideon sorry, George Osborne (why did he have to change his name?). He didn't really get the job because they were in the Bullington Club together, now did he?
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Do I detect a slight note of bitterness and, perhaps, envy there? If someone made the same comments about someone from the "working class" who was successful in politics, they would be, quite rightly, accused of being "a snob" - I think the same thing is true in reverse - you appear to be judging a person by the circumstances of his birth. The Class War is so last century
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
And I admire your commitment and dedication, so surely you can see what fee freezing will do to public services such as this.
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What I have found since I moved from the private sector to the publicly-funded sector is that there were ways of getting more for the same - better resource utilisation, using more cost-effective suppliers, and cutting out a lot of manual processing that could be work-flowed through IT systems and process engineering; there were/are so many things done in a certain way because they have always been done in a certain way.