Comments on: TheyWorkForYou nothing to do with this sacked civil servant story

By: Cyberman

Cyberman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:46:30 +0000

This would never have happened under the Tories.

By: Müzik Dinle

Müzik Dinle — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:58:02 +0000

Thanks for you….

By: michael

michael — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:41:51 +0000

This seems to be another clear example of one rule for us and one rule for them.Steven Broomhead, the Chief Executive of a Government Agency , paid £180,000 per year by the taxpayer can get caught sending texts about dying Pakistanis including the use of the ‘F’ word and not only keeps his job but actually gets promoted to another Government board. A lowly paid civil servant critices a Government Minister and gets sacked. A quick google of Steven Broomhead, racist text will substantiate this allegation. It really does make you despair.

By: Chris Paul

Chris Paul — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:09:43 +0000

That clears up this part of the story. Shows it up as sloppy and incomplete. But there are loads of other questions. Presumably the comment albeit “anonymous” was in work time on a work computer using a work email account or at least IP? And presumably there would have to more than one 10 minute aberration of doing this just the once to get summary dismissal for gross industrial misconduct, effectively theft?

Despite the relatively short service (7 months) Lisa might have various grounds for a claim for wrongful dismissal and should consult her union and/or lawyer.

By: Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:58:58 +0000

mySociety did get in touch with Lisa Greenwood. An explanation of what happened in the civil servant’s own words can be read at:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2009-July/005168.html

She says she found the link to Hazel Blears’ web site on TheyWorkForYou, followed it, and used the contact email address she found on Blears’ web site to send the email which she got into trouble over.

By: Martin Keegan

Martin Keegan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:44:11 +0000

Oh, this is probably just something timed to coincide with the vote on the ID Cards Act – the papers have also been full of stories about the Tories planning to hand NHS records to Microsoft and Google.

By: Matthew Somerville

Matthew Somerville — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:28:24 +0000

I Am Not A Lawyer. But I’m not sure how the RIP Act applies to what I said or this instance – we’re not a telecommunications service/system, this is not about communication data, or the interception of data being transmitted. Which part of the Act are you referring to?

By: Peter Stevens

Peter Stevens — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:08:20 +0000

“No-one has ever contacted us to ask us to hand over such data, nor have we ever done so.”

Isn’t it a requirement of the RIP act that you have to say that even if you have handed over the data?

By: thom

thom — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:27:02 +0000

The story only really makes sense if the site that she was posting onto was explicitly partisan. I’d guess it was some sort of Tory forum, which might explain why the Telegraph and Mail appear to have ‘misremembered’ the source.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:20:33 +0000

I think most commenters who have a clue have been saying that it will be her workplace tracing her internet usage via their own servers rather than thinking it was anything to do with you.

Unfortunately, there are many who haven’t got a clue so don’t blame you getting a clarification out.

Does make you wonder why the media would specifically mention you though.