Boss of Southern Rail trousers nearly £500,000

[Titanic]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...s-almost-doubles-500k-despite-strikes-delays/

The salary paid to the boss of Southern rail has almost doubled to nearly £500,000 in a year of strike chaos and delays.

Charles Horton’s pay went from £263,000 in the firm’s 2015 financial year to £478,000 in the year to July 2, 2016, despite parent company Govia Thameslink losing more than £15 million.

Mr Horton also appears to have received £17,000 from old Southern rail entity Southern Railway Limited, bringing his annual total to £495,000

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

That's absolutely disgusting.

 

[Ernest]

That's the TORY way, TREBLES all round

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Privatising profits and socialising losses.

 

[BBassic]

Horrendous.

He should be made to use that to pay back the full price of every ticket, for every passenger, for every cancelled train in the last 12 months. Though something tells me £500k somehow wouldn't cover it.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That's the TORY way, TREBLES all round

Quite. The government give out these contracts so they can take them back as well. But they don't want to.

 

[Taybha]

This news honestly makes me feel a bit sick .

 

[Westdene Seagull]

That's the TORY way, TREBLES all round

Quite. The government give out these contracts so they can take them back as well. But they don't want to.

And yet LABOUR didn't even attempt to change the system whilst in power. Hmmmm ......

 

[Ernest]

And yet LABOUR didn't even attempt to change the system whilst in power. Hmmmm ......

What is the OFFICIAL Labour Party policy on railways then numb nuts ?

 

[Titanic]

What is the OFFICIAL Labour Party policy on railways then numb nuts ?

Who knows? and if they did, it has probably changed.

 

[Bry Nylon]

The salary paid to the boss of Southern rail has almost doubled to nearly £500,000 in a year of strike chaos and delays.

He'll be chuff chuffed with that.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

People who voted Tory knew the Tories privatise anything and everything, and then buy the shares.
Upshot is that the railways are a mess, extremely expensive and the bosses can get huge pay rises even though they have failed badly.
You wanted it, you got it, live with it.

 

[ALBION28]

People who voted Tory knew the Tories privatise anything and everything, and then buy the shares.
Upshot is that the railways are a mess, extremely expensive and the bosses can get huge pay rises even though they have failed badly.
You wanted it, you got it, live with it.

Summed up the whole national mess in one. Well done.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Seriously. Just how stupid and insensitive can this company be?

There have been some pretty weak remuneration committees out there - but this one takes the biscuit.

This isn't even a political thing. It's just downright stupidity and incompetence by just about the worst company to exist in the U.K.

And just to balance things out, I hope Mick bloody Cash doesn't get a rise either......


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