| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Have the Conservatives changed under Cameron? | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 08/10/09 08:47:00 |
| Are the Conservatives united behind the principles of cronyism and appointing useless people to quango jobs because they're your friends, David? How's this for promoting the narrow sectional interests of ex-tabloid editors who championed you in the press for months? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6865287.ece# "Ms Wadley, who left the Standard in February, was judged as having “almost no arts credibility” by an independent adjudicator during the shortlisting process to find a new head of the London arm of the arts funding quango. Sir David Durie, a former governor of Gibraltar and a member of the Greater London Authority standards watchdog, who was part of the three-strong shortlisting team, believed she was “manifestly the least qualified of the four” candidates. Despite agreeing she would not make the final shortlist, Mr [Boris] Johnson interviewed her over the summer and backed her for the job. He said in a letter recommending the appointment to Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, that Ms Wadley’s fundraising skills and views on music education made her the obvious candidate. " Care to explain this one as anything other than a disgraceful exercise in payback? |