"Flood defence chiefs 'should pay back bonuses'"

Well well well what a fucking surprise, the pigs (“Tony Cronies”) have had their noses in the trough again. So not only do we pay through the nose for useless leadership of the Environment Agency, we then pay the idiot in charge a huge bonus! Thank god someone had the good sence to make their greed public! now we all know they couldn’t arrange a bunk up in a brothel get them gone NOW.

The directors of the Environment Agency have come under growing pressure to repay huge bonuses they were awarded days before the worst floods of modern times.

Environment Agency chairman Baroness Young was paid £24,000 bonus

Baroness Young said water bills would have to rise to pay for additional flood defences

Details of the five-figure payouts were slipped out at the end of last week, on the last day of Parliament. This triggered accusations of a cover-up and exacerbated anger in the worst-hit areas of Britain where 340,000 people still have no running water.

The Labour peer Baroness Young, the agency's chairman, was paid a £24,000 bonus, 15 per cent of her £163,000 salary, the agency's annual report disclosed. Eight more executives, including the director of water management, received bonuses averaging 10 per cent.

On Saturday, in an interview in The Daily Telegraph, Lady Young said water bills would have to rise to pay for additional flood defences.

Last night she defended the agency's record and the payment of performance-related bonuses, saying that the organisation had done what it could in the face of an "extreme weather event".