I've come to the conclusion that no matter how abominably shit a "director" in the public sector is at their job, they never seem to accept that with the big money comes the big responsibility. In business, on a salary like hers you'd be expected to take the shit if it does all hit the fan, and when the axe falls, it falls with quite some weight.
Probably because there's so much opinionated rabble lining the top offices of councils nationwide, none of them believe they're any less incompetent than the next incompetent director, and hence feel genuinely hard done by when they get the sack over a little thing like a child being tortured to death under their noses over the timespan of a whopping 17 months.
Shoesmith isn't the only one to blame. But when you're at the top and on £135,000 a year to boot, the buck fucking stops with you. So I would encourage this bedraggled old bitch to stop her whinging if she is to feel at all safe on the streets. The public aren't quite stupid enough to swallow her bullshit yet (although Ed Balls' education programming is working on that).
