Work as the BBC top bod for two months, resign and get a £450000 payoff 
Makes my blood boil 
Sooner they get rid of patten the better.
For the past four years we’ve heard nothing but It’s in the contract, we have to pay the sums involved but now we have a situation whereby the man has been paid twice the contractual arrangement in order for him to resign with honour.
No-one at the top end of management will just sack their colleague with no payment just in case the same scenario should descend on themselves.
Stan