The Gord taketh, and then taketh soem more..

When is a man a woman?

Like ageism legislation, I am sure that the desired result will be arrived at by all interested parties (bar the poor sap who wastes their time engaging with these 'transparent' systems, little realising they are there to promote the interests of a whole raft of paid, perked, pensioned and protected numpties involved in the process with zero interest in the result) in the time-honoured manner. It'll be rigged behind closed doors.

Speaking of which, and the 'mulitiple-standards in work employment legislation' for which this current outfit is known and loved, isn't the lady above the husky-voiced paragon who has got through more staff on the public payroll than even some AK-47 toting US postal workers have managed since Pony Express?

I'd like to see some small businesses try to get away with that.

Job insecurity

Gordon Brown's 'representative on earth' under fire

Wow, the government and the BBC seem to have HR policies and constructive dismissal-avoiding systems those of us here in the UK, on Planet Earth, can only wonder at, even after the last decade of legislative workplace protection, anti-'ist' 'progress'.

I guess that, even when you are within the womb of the civil service, some are more secure than others.

We can evidently add 'being funny to some', and 'having a good shrieking voice' to adequate defences. Spiffy.

I think we need a Department of Double Standards. Or two. Just in case.