Good news - Reform is advertising for a vetting officer

Bad news - they’re offering £32,000 a year, which allows for £50 of vetting x 640 candidates

(Source: Times diary column)

Posted By: Old Git on May 27th 2026 at 10:23:08

Message Thread

Good news - Reform is advertising for a vetting officer (General Chat) - Old Git, May 27, 10:23:08
- Ben, you probably ought to burn this thread now, it’s become defamatory (General Chat) - Old Git, May 27, 13:32:27
  - Link? (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, May 27, 14:09:24
    - He means PP's post (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 14:38:35
  - Would it help if I started a new thread that simply consisted of the word (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 13:40:43
    - Yes (General Chat) - Old Git, May 27, 13:46:04
      - When I popped up on here after a long absence, you brought it up, and fair enough, but (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 13:57:20
        
        You one of those transexulists lad ? Or ladettte (General Chat) - Disco, May 27, 17:09:19
        
        It's so nice having you back here. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 14:12:44
        
        It's fortunate that the guardians of the Pantsbot technology are allies (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, May 27, 14:11:37
        
        Comrades, even (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 17:02:12
        
        You were very much missed (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 14:01:06
        
        I see both of them at the matches from time to time (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 14:02:23
        
        What is IED up to these days? (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, May 27, 15:19:28
        
        Yeah, it's something like that (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 16:27:10
- Who will be vetting applicants? (n/m) (General Chat) - revsimon, May 27, 12:43:43
  - essex (n/m) (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, May 27, 12:56:25
- Naughty words on social media vs peados rapists like most labour midlands mps (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 12:29:40
  - There are 66 Labour MPs in the Midlands (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 12:36:21
    - So a quick Google i suggest you look (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 13:16:49
      - You said most Labour Midlands MPs and cllrs were paedo rapists (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 13:38:56
        
        But reform tweets hurty words... (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 14:40:31
        
        I think, personally, you should be grateful if Ben removes this post (General Chat) - APB, May 27, 15:20:34
        
        I apologise if some hurty words offended you or some others (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 15:34:09
        
        It wasn’t me you offended (General Chat) - APB, May 27, 16:04:38
        
        Again if someone takes that comment as serious i will hold my hands up (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 16:13:10
        
        I'm not offended by it. (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 16:20:56
        
        I named a few theres probably more.... (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 18:07:47
        
        I'm afraid you're just imagining stuff now. (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 18:59:23
        
        Oh I see! (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 14:49:51
        
        Hardly. (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 15:17:36
      - 2 in Midlands (General Chat) - Henclrikus, May 27, 13:23:11
      - Serious question (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 13:22:46
        
        No idea. But you lot are so anti reform they have a bloke who said this (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 14:43:50
        
        I don't brush anything under the carpet (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 14:49:40
        
        Fucking hell should work for Baker Hughes then (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 14:57:25
        
        They check hard drives? (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 15:00:03
        
        I think the company pays this hireright or similar company's (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 15:23:46
        
        I had a look (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 15:25:36
      - Old andy will be on the list i suspect soon. No way hes just (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, May 27, 13:18:36
    - I think claiming that lots of labour councillors (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, May 27, 12:43:10
      - "peados rapists like most labour midlands mps And councilors." (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 13:11:42
        
        "stretching it a bit" 😂 (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, May 27, 13:14:00
      - At least you remembered to remove the quote marks this time (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 12:51:18
        
        There we are then (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, May 27, 12:53:01
        
        Weirdly they could care less (General Chat) - phrankin, May 27, 15:26:34
        
        *couldn't care less (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 15:34:02
        
        After all, we can all post links about rapists (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 15:36:44
        
        Other countries citizens that are here to claim asylum as refugees (General Chat) - phrankin, May 27, 17:23:43
        
        You do know that Labour has recently deported literally (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 18:16:36
- Seriously though, isn't the likely pattern that Reform get sick of having to drop people (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 11:30:58
  - Well. When your base doesn’t care about those things a high turnover with low overhead (General Chat) - Legacy Fan, May 27, 11:45:22
- I'm in, where do I apply? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 11:23:01
- Shame St Nicola didn't do a better job vetting her dear generous husband (General Chat) - paulg, May 27, 10:39:11
  - Scotland’s establishment is so fucking corrupt (General Chat) - Old Git, May 27, 11:15:36
    - If it had happened before the press decided in late 2021 that Johnson was no longer useful (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 11:26:59
      - Could always hide in a fridge (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 11:34:11
        
        He could have taken away their recording equipment like with that ITV reporter's phone (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 11:37:04
        
        What fun days (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 12:03:38
        
        Let the bodies pile high! (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 12:09:05
    - 👀 (n/m) (General Chat) - JD3, May 27, 11:17:30
  - Yeah ...didn't she question her hubby when he spent 5k on a pen ? (n/m) (General Chat) - MORDENCANARY, May 27, 10:46:01
    - or indeed (as I've just seen) £81k on a Jag?! (n/m) (General Chat) - paulg, May 27, 14:59:52
    - He bought a lot of pens (General Chat) - camcan, May 27, 10:52:25
      - boom ! (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, May 27, 11:00:56
      - theirs were probably a bit more expensive tbh (n/m) (General Chat) - paulg, May 27, 10:55:43
- footymadman should apply - Turn your hobby to ££££ APPLY NOW! (n/m) (General Chat) - paulg, May 27, 10:36:00
  - Ha (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, May 27, 12:58:26
  - Ha ha (General Chat) - Old Git, May 27, 11:04:52
  - He could sabotage it and approve the very worst people (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, May 27, 10:52:59
    - Would we notice....? (n/m) (General Chat) - Saucerer, May 27, 12:05:10
- This seems like a rational amount of effort for Reform to put into it (General Chat) - Under soil heating, May 27, 10:35:47
  - Great analysis.... (General Chat) - MORDENCANARY, May 27, 11:03:43
  - free press coverage each time a loon is found (General Chat) - Tony Martin, May 27, 10:38:04
    - I don’t know (General Chat) - Old Git, May 27, 11:06:44
      - Do they want to win Bigly though? (General Chat) - CWC, May 27, 11:56:58
      - Very notable that every post where Reform talk about their immigration plans is met with (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 11:34:09
      - restore will claim the loonies, reform will normalise, but not win anything due to restore (General Chat) - Tony Martin, May 27, 11:09:49
        
        If I had to make a prediction - and it's an absolute mug's game at the best of times (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 27, 11:36:24
- If you did a full employment screening, you'd need to spend roughly double that (General Chat) - camcan, May 27, 10:33:56
- Quite an easy gig. (General Chat) - MORDENCANARY, May 27, 10:32:16

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