[Ammi]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I still think it should not be paid until after all the investigations. Whatever happened to no prizes for failure.

Nice ideal Joey, but I doubt if that phrase was ever used in her employment contract. Unfair yes, but that's the way it is, as Omah points out the rich get richer..............................

Originally Posted by Livia

I don't think it's stupid to hope she would walk away with nothing. Of course people in her position are in a win/win situation but this story is big enough to perhaps bring about a change. It's not only the victims of the newspaper's collective greed and dishonesty who are angry, the public is angry. I know the public is angry because, for example, just one of the MPs I work with has received over three hundred letters this week from constituents demanding the government do something. That's not counting the telephone calls and the emails. To say "it always happens" doesn't make it any easier to swallow for anyone.

Well I am not in the least surprised, I knew if she resigned it would be with a very large handshake, otherwise her lawyers would screw them to the wall. If the government are able to bring about much needed changes and anything like this ever happens again, we can hopse that no such financial benefits can be made again, but that's for the future, it won't happen overnight