Labour MPs are intensely relaxed about fat cat public sector pay
Council employees lined up to hand over Apple goodie bags to every new councillor – each contained a brand new ipad and iphone
Surrey County Council has taken a massive leap in the wrong direction.
Yet again Ed Miliband has proven himself too weak to stand up to vested interests.
Perhaps Cllr Parsons has ambitions to become a UKIP MEP and return to a life of lavish expenses.
If a councillor can’t afford to pay the Council Tax, why to their expect their residents to be able to?
Its leader will be on £43,011 a year.
Councillors on Labour-run Stoke on Trent City Council have agreed a nine per cent increase in their allowances. The basic allowance increases from £11,000 to £12,000 a year. The Special Responsibility Allowance increases from £22,000 to £24,000. The council leader Cllr Mohammad Perez sees his total allowances increase by £4,000 to £48,000. It is disappointing […]
The Local Government Association Labour Group have issued a disgraceful defence of taxpayer funded gold-plated pensions to councillors. This is in response to the Government's consultation on proposals to scrap them. Labour's LGA Group are keen to point out their stance is representative. They say they "wrote to all Labour Councillors and the response from […]
Anthony O'Sullivan, the suspended chief executive of Caerphilly council and and his deputy Nigel Barnett have been arrested. It came after secret and unlawful pay increases. Mr O'Sullivan's salary increased from £132,000 to £158,000 when the rest of the council staff were having a pay freeze. A Wales Audit Office report said: "The decision by […]
The Taxpayers' Alliance annual Town Hall Rich List is out and it shows a quite significant fall in the number of council staff on six figure salaries (or rather "remuneration" as the TPA rightly includes the cost of pension contributions.) There were 2,525 council employees who received total remuneration in excess of £100,000 in 2011 […]
The Daily Telegraph follows up this morning – on an Evening Standard report yesterday – with the story that London councils have spent £200 million on redundancy payments over the last two years. The startling aspect is how high some of the individual payments are. Topping the league was Andrew Kilburn, the former chief executive […]
The Municipal Journal reports(£) on some good progress made by Conservative-run Staffordshire County Council in reducing sickness absence by 8%. That amounts to 9,000 fewer sick days a year. The new policy means the council’s absence rate is an average of 7.68 days per employee, the same as for the private sector. It estimates the […]
Cllr Nicholas Rogers, a councillor on Tunbridge Wells borough council, calls for unitary authorities, fewer but higher paid councillors and local sales tax revenue to replace grants from central government The halfway point of my first term of office as a Tunbridge Wells borough councillor is fast approaching. It’s been challenging, fun, frustrating and exciting […]
A strange email arrives from the Local Government Chronicle. It's subject heading says: Would Eric Pickles agree with you attending? Then the email itself continues: The answer is yes he would! It concerns the LGC Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel on March 13th and tells me "tables are going fast." It doesn't tell me […]