The news that more than half of the council chief execs are paid more than the PM has caused a fair flurry of chatter today. It made it out on to the wires and was picked up by almost all of the news outlets. Except the BBC. A quick look over at the website and it seems large publicly funded salaries are not something they wish to talk about.
Funny that.
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
Be like turkey voting for christmas
Cut libraries or cut exec pay? Won’t hear that question on the beeb, either.
The BBC likes library closures – much more exciting.
Trolls were much better under McBride. Much more original.
Where is Jonty?
Has he got a real job at last? Or has the library closed already?
The future’s not Brown any more though, is it ???
Sorry but we’re too busy for this trivia. We’re busy linking climate change skeptics to P@ed0s
Climate change skeptics are worse than pedos. We always broadcast the objective truth.
Sometimes Billy, not often mind, you hit the nail right on the head.
BBC needs to commercially funded, its remit has gone way beyond an independent broadcasting company. No private broadcasting company could afford to expand like the BBC or waste £100million on an overspend for new build without sanction to anyone. It’s more like a lefty propaganda arm of Liebour. When will the government have the courage to set it free to the commercial world, we’ll see how cherished is it then!!
If you want a laugh you should see the BBC management tree that it is currently been publicised for Scotland – more chiefs than indians by a factor of at least 4 – no structure that would stand the test of a business organisation as every one reports to every one. I was brought up to understand that a management structure should have clear roles and duties shown and that if a manager had a lot of other managers reporting to him/her then the organisation was overfat. The BBC is over over over fat with management.
We can be confident we know where the licence fee goes – jobs for the boys and girls but no work to do, except to carry their wages home in a removal van.
And they’re all members of the gaelic gang. I didn’t speak no bloody gaelic and I beat the English.
Sell the Left wing BEEB to Murdoch for realignment to the Fox News standard
The Bruce !
You don’t even know how to spell your own name, you Franco-Norman tit.
It’s ‘De Bruce, De Bruce !’
You French t*at.
Indeed. Its remit has gone outrageously beyond what would be expected or permitted of an ordinary ‘independent broadcasting company’.
Perhaps it is the invocation of the magic word ‘corporation’ which enables it to be exempted from the usual rules of fiscal providence. Or perhaps these rules have followed a former Chancellor’s Golden Rule in a lemming-like plunge into auto-destruction.
Two tier authorities have several CEOs who get paid more than Dave. Why have one CEO on £150,000 when you can have five!! I’m not kidding, look around the country for two tier authorities covering the same area and tax payers are paying many times over for several tiers of management in duplicate authorities. All so called director of services pegging their salaries to the CEO, middle managers pegging their salaries to directors and so on. These are where the cuts should be made not front line services.
Even Nick and Dave with their inexperience of life could solve this one if they really tried. Their energy could be spent on this and other big issues of importance rather than the Big Society bllocks or Nick’s homosexuals getting married in a church.
Come to think of it, why is Nick sending his kids to a faith school many miles away from where he lives when he wants gay people to be married in a church, isn’t there a conflict of beliefs, Nick?? Hypocrite. Dumb down universities, dumb down faith, dumb down marriage, dumb down schools, dumb down defence, upgrade immigration, upgrade contribution to EU, create an EU state- you are a waste of space Clegg.
So you’ve noticed that ‘Local Government’ is being changed to aid the creation of ‘Euro-regions’.
You are ten years to late mate. The deed is done. Regional and sub-regional ‘local government’ is here to stay.
‘The Reich Lite marches on’.
Get use to it English monkeys, England is finished, ha ha ha ha ha.
Council chiefs in Wales ‘get right pay for their work’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12446491
“…..according to the body representing local government leaders.”
No shit, Sherlock.
Dinner break is over, get back to the work the council tax payers pay you to do.
Why don’t council workers look out of the window in the morning? Because they’d have fuck all to do in the morning!
Ber dum dum, tish!
Afternoon, afternoon – argghh, curses.
Considering the number of illiterate sheep shaggers that populate Wales… there must be a fair number of the same being in such top positions.
(And by “top positions”, I mean on councils… not with baa-baa’s woolly hind legs stuffed down their owner’s wellies).
FFS why isn’t the Coalition communications office hammering home these facts at every opportunity rather than wasting precious time on the Big Society bollocks.
Clearly these guys are very good at something or other if they manage to get themselves such wages. (It might be of course that they are just good at selling the idea that they should be paid a lot).
They are probably quite good in the arts of bollocks and politicking, so are a harder target than a bunch of trees. And that one went really well dinnit.
Will I do ????
“illiterate sheep shaggers” wonderful mental image, Mr Doff, but would literate ones be any better?
Eric Pickles looked absolutely delighted that the “salary spotlight” had been moved from parliament to local council chiefs.
Just the tip of the iceberg!
Doesn’t take into account all the contractors (IT, Finance, Procurement, Production etc, etc).
The BBC along with all levels of government is chock full of non salaried staff, raking in anywhere between £400 and £2500 PER DAY. Many of these non salaried staff have been in post for donkey’s years. That’s the real scandal of who gets paid more than Cameron.
If you are in a publicly funded cocoon you keep quiet about such things as exec pay in public bodies. It’s all well and good having marxist beliefs but you don’t want to be on the bread line while pontificating.
The same council execs that are cutting front line services unnecessarily whilst lining their own pockets – then blaming the Government.
It stinks. Come on Pickles – a bonfire of the councils!!
To be honest, why didn’t Cameron and Pickles see this one coming? Everyone else did.
It wasn’t on my blue sky radar…
Then elect councillors who’ll bring a stop to this nonsense. If people keep voting back the same crap people who bring them the same crap services then they deserve to wallow in the shite of their own making.
So the Labour councils that are closing library services are doing their voters’ will in getting rid of services which they have no interest in keeping? Quite logical. So why the shrill bleating (I have noticed an ovine theme in this thread) about the closures?
You fat -ist Hunt
Poor Eric, no one came along with a box of matches to help him light his bonfire. Matchs not an approved expenses claim item
They’re keeping their front page clear for the passing of Thatcher, as usual when there’s something anti-state in the air.
WEN FATCHUR CROWKS ILL B ON BBC TV ALL DAY SAYING HOW SHIT SHE WOZ.
May the passing of her Spitting Image image long precede her, TT.
It’s an entitlement. Like a Taxi Account. Free booze. Free houses because your employer has the temerity to move its factor oop north because it doesn’t think its whole output should be based in London
Troughers, the lot of ‘em
They mentioned it on 5 Live, turn on the radio Guido
Every time I tune my radio to Five Live it’s a matter of seconds before I end up punching the thing.
I used to feel like that watching the BBC Breakfast News.
Is Nicky Campbell one of Stalins love children.
Maybe they felt they could have done better for themsleves
its about time our [polictions and locel chief execs lived in the real world , I proporse a 50% cut in pay to Mps ( Back bench down to about 30k above natainal avarage) , Pm and ministers the same ( and shadow) , local council chiefs pay down to a back bench mp , 50% cut in manergers and middle manegers .
I agree. (Whatever it means)
Make them set their own pay….
On the voting slip.
Like that idea ….
What a fucking brilliant idea!!
I must say I’ve heard this story some time ago. They were looking critically at why theres such an inflation in their pay. It was some R4 prog- I was listening to it while gardening (hence on a dodgy old radio).
“I’ve been paying for your love child, Ed”
This would be the same structural deficit that George Osborne said he would match penny for penny?
So why did Liam Byrne leave a note behind saying,’ there’s no money left’ ??
Well of course he did. There might be a peerage in it for him.
Marr gives EVERY Labour MP an easy ride.
And quite right too. And I can confirm that having shagged Ed, he is not called Balls for nothing.
Will those B.B.C. staff who transfer to Manchester still trouser the same pay ?
and the rest, mate
re-location money; inconvenience money; mortgage subsidy; travel costs; etc etc
Plus the cost of elocution lessons and translators.
I give a month before the staff will transfer back dahn sarf,after being broken into for the umpteenth time and car nicked for the tenth time and the insurance refusing to cover them or offering a tot premium,the one’s who stay are the one’s Granada will hire because they will be the best of the best.
It will give the overpaid luvvies form the south a taste of what a real Labour area is like to live in. Whippets, pigeons and unabated crime excellent stuff !!!
You’re right dutchy.
Trouble is they’ll blame it all on Coalition cuts!
Fuck the Granada system… they raised John Burt before he went to the BBC and look what happened afterwards!
My mate had a Granada once, Bright yellow it was and went like the clappers. And the wipers didn’t work either.
get it right. John BIRT. was the accountant leftie i/c the BBC. (can I sue for slander?)
They have to keep the website clear for urgent news like this:
‘Men rescued from Acton house fire
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued two men after flames tore through a home in west London.
‘The fire took hold of a shop with flats above it on Acton High Street at about 2320 GMT on Sunday. Four appliances went to the scene.’
The BBC has mentioned this, but not in the way you were expecting…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12446491?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Is that the Big Bollocks Corporation?
No – it’s the Billy Bollocks Corporation.
Oh, and thats not news, its PR.
This strikes me as some sort of publicity, manipulation of what goes on the news agenda of the day, and whether or not they can get themselves in as a steve wright in the afternoon factoid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11319918
I looked at that and thought “10:17 ? ” but of course it was news last september. but of course, it was news then by the BBC because they were pushing it up the news agenda so people would watch their Panorama prog in the evening.
Oh yeah and the BBC , simple no-one earns more than the PM .
Or even the Big Bucks Corporation?
Or even Big Buxom Corporation. {see previous blog post}
For more years than I care to remember I have see my local Conservative led council servants ramp up car parking fees, council taxes and pay themselves huge salaries while sneakily reducing many of the services to just about non-existent for the people they serve. I recently heard our local council chiefs have seen fit to increase burial charges by a staggering 40%, grave robbing next I should not wonder!
Too often these Councils are cosy little cliques with nodding agreements amongst themselves ever ready to pat themselves on the back and award themselves perks that taxpayers struggle hard to pay for.
It is interesting to see how they are quite happy to sack their own troops and reduce funding to essential services rather than take a pay cut themselves.
I note how these councils are infested by work-shy upstarts that would struggle to get a proper job in the real world they so often claim their ridiculous salaries need parity with.
I have a message for them, fuck off and get an equivalent salary in the real world your council job is worth no more than the average UK salary 28K note please! At the moment falling across the board from £28,207 to £25,543 – a difference of £2,664.
If you want more, get a proper job where tangible results mean you keep your job…if you are lucky!
If Omaha Beach can freeze government salaries why can’t Wavy Davy and The Mexican general Clegg?
Now look here
I am very busy organising for homos to get married in churches, synogogues and mosques…
You must get your priorities right…
Is it not for the Churches to decide who should be allowed to marry in their own consecrated buildings? Cleggy and Dave are making a big mistake to try to interfere with religious matters. The French government would not dare!
They really are a pair of utter fuckwits! I give the coalition 6 months and Cameron a further 6. Clueless ‘managers’!
O/T but worth taking note of:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,745383,00.html
The EU and her own party use Angie and Nicolas and wipe the floor with them.
Good article
But the real reason for Angela and Sarko to try to establish
an “economic government of Europe” is that it is the only way
to save the Euro
And they are too scared of saying so…for fear of market reaction….
And the disintegration of the Euro will destroy the European project for ever…
The EU is a tax cartel and we are it’s victims.
van Rumpoy and the rest of the European Commission do not like Merkel or Sarkozy. They do not do things the European way. They got democratically elected FFS – that is NOT the way Europe should be run!
Aesop – enough with the fables already!
Did anyone really think the Tories would clamp down on the BBC?
Cameron’s as left/centrist as Blair ever was. Big state, sorry ‘society’, more integration with Europe, un-winnable wars in countries thousands of miles away. Yep, more of the same sh1t from the last 14 years.
Cameron is well to the left of Blair.
Blair is an evil, corrupt, fascist warmonger. Sadly, some of us saw that in the mid-90s and have had to watch from behind the couch as all our fears came true.
Dead right, Guido. Just listening to WATO, and not a whisper of this. We’re still in Egypt at the moment (apparently the Egyptian Army has been busy clearing Ta-whatsit Square or the massed hordes of BBC reporters). Prior to that, we had a lengthy sneer-at-Big-Society session, with lots of emphasis on how withdrawing taxpayer funding of charities will cause the country to implode.
Clearing away demonstrators and outlawing strikes is democratic, apparently.
We’re now onto the Russians simulating a mision to Mars.
Council leaders troughing? Move along please – nothing to see.
Why nothing from Tunisia anymore?
That’s a pretty good place to do coverage from. Plenty of bars and swimming pools.
Maybe its just the brothels might not be up to Cairo standard.
Exactly, Engineer. I had to switch off after that as more than 10 minutes a day of that harridan Kearney is more than a sane man can bear.
Tom Newton-Dunn has a good go in The Sun too, I noticed, in between their excellent new “Page 360 – the digital version of Page 3 which gives you an all-round view of our beauties…”
So what’s the BBC line on the Egyptian revolution they’ve been inciting for weeks now that martial law has been declared???
BBC TV 1 pm news spent most its time rubbishing the ‘Big Society’ – the parting shot from the economic genius journo – many people won’t have access to services which used to be free. Brilliant. And there’s me thinking it was our taxes that paid for it. Maybe if all the Marxists hold hands in a circle cash will come floating down from the fairies, which is obviously where they think it comes from. For the BBC it must seem like that.
Not only the officers what about the 30,000 + councillors receiving pay and allowances.
Some are on £30K + some Councils have allowances for the leader of the Independent group.
Many are in recepit of pensions , disability allowances some receive payments from more than one authority why the hell do we pay them at all for civic duties – which are supposed to be and honour
Why do we pay for political officers.
Only tittle trofers but a hell of alot of our money in total.
By the way I am an upaid parish (actually Town) councillor.
In most advanced economies a market share of over 25% in a sector is considered a dominant position.
Why in God’s name is the BBC allowed to keep a 44% media market share
If it were a private company it would have been broken up years ago…
At least half of the BBC should be split off and privatised…
Nope , All of it , Let the market decide , If as they say everyone loves the BBC they wont have any problem in a free market……. Or will they?
Er , no.
At least half of the BBC should be summarily put on the dole. Once that has been done, half should be split off and privatised.
Well you’re half right. Place half on the dole, the other half liquidate and feed to pigs as low grade swill.
Even the Grauniad is running the story…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/14/half-council-chiefs-paid-more-than-pm
The BBC should be brought to heel immediately…
Is there anyone in the Coalition with any guts or honesty left ?
“Is there anyone in the Coalition with any guts or honesty left ?”
ROFL!
Now that the BBC have placed their top News man right at the heart of number 10, they have nothing to fear from this government anymore.
Come and get yer gruel! Luvverly gruel! Still warm! Freshly topped with some of Sam Cameron’s dandruff, from when she stirred it for a few seconds during a photo-op 2 days ago!
Get yer gruel! Come on, luvverly gruel!
Move along now, there’s nothing to see here.
How many people in the BBC are paid more than the PM ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11372185
160, not including “the talent”. Figures from last september.
Depends how many people are in the BBC.
No, it doesn’t
Quite a few I reckon.
Is it me or doesnt this title make sense ?
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/dan-hodges/2011/02/org-dot-labour-party-miliband
From seen elswhere : To actual and offical end of new labour
A Little known Fact. Sally Bercow, then Sally Illman was a Thatcherite. Minute 2:13 Sally speaking at the Tory Conference.
Beautiful linenfold. I want to get some of that knocked up for my pad down here. Just get that slapper out of the way and I can use the pic as a pattern for my foreman to commission.
These days, anything can be airbrushed out, or into a picture by using computer technology.
What a pity we can’t use this on our governments.
Would you “adam and eve” it ??
Wedding: Guido Fawkes to Be Wills’ Best Man
‘Tory-Led’ Guido Fawkes.. come on , get it right.
Surely you could craft, “Thatcher, Thatcher Milk Snatcher” into that, not to mention, “Stop the Cuts”, “Protest coaches leaving at 9.00 am” or even going back to the ’60s ,”Better Red Than Dead”.
I noticed this comment from Richard Kemp, vice chair of the LGA: (from the Guardian)
Kemp says now: “Pickles doesn’t like local government. He appeals to the average reader of the Daily Mail, rather than to the average council leader – of any party. People at local government gatherings are turning off in their droves when he speaks.”
Last time I checked, the Daily Mail had around 2 million daily readers (plus squillions of page impressions on their website).
There are 359 council leaders.
Somehow I think it’s Kemp, not Pickles, who has got his priorities wrong.
Not unlike Cameron. It seems to me that there are probably a handful of people who believe in the BS and I have seen and heard many hundreds, if not thousands, who think it is a risible, puerile, insulting and unworkable idea.
The BBC are an extra large bunch of bastards, buggers and a word beginning with C that slips my memory. Ah well, it’ll come back to me. The thing to remember is that the BBC is apalling, with a capital P, extortion with a capital X and overall a cosy £4,000 million a year rip off. If I choose not to buy a packet of cornflakes I do not wind up with a criminal record.
The Great British suckers pay the TV TAX for the dubious honour and privilege of being fed government propaganda, pap, and recycled sewage. It is a bloody travesty. It should be flogged off, piecemeal at a car boot sale, on ice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7948638/China-overtakes-Japan-to-become-worlds-second-biggest-economy.html
I think the Coalition’s No 10 is becoming as dysfunctional as Gordo’s…
And that is saying something….
+1.
Anna Nuvva
and her sister Ava Nuvva
BBC is the best in the world and needs to attract people of the highest caliber.
Just look at this afternoon’s schedule..
Escape to the country
To buy or not to buy
Cash in the attic {celebrity edition}
deadly 60
Flog It
weakest link
Put your money where your mouth is.
Finest TV in the world. If they didn’t pinch £145 off every household then you wouldn’t have this quality.
And you wouldn’t even have known about Egypt !
{assuming you have no access to newspapers or SKynewsITNCNNCBSC45ALjazeeraetc
Deadly 60 is Brill.
Could watch Homes Under the Hammer all day.
Escape to the country
To buy or not to buy
Cash in the attic {celebrity edition}
deadly 60
Flog It
weakest link,
I see the actions of 13 years of New Labour MPs has wormed way into the psyche of the BBC and its Director in Chief of Public Offal Programming.
Cheap and awful programmes. They just roll them round all day like on Sky.
What a complete waste of Licence fees.
You know, Bill, if they advertised in the Grauniad, or even the local shop window come to that, for “people of the lowest calibre to whom we will pay shit wages, barely above the minimum wage, if that much”, the people they would recruit could hardly do worse than the current shower of champagne guzzlers.
Today should be charities big win day,the bankers will order a new Bentley and buy more properties in Bermuda
The poor will still be poor,the old will still get adverts for a Stanna stair lift as advertised by a charity,the sick will be sick,fit animals will still be put down and the charities will still be stopping you getting in Tesco’s until you put your hand in your pockets,and idiots will still work for free in charity shops in belief they are the charity helping whatever they say they are helping.
Ed Balls: David Cameron is ‘taking country back to Thatcher era’
*** ### £££ FUCKING GOOD SHOW £££ ### ***
… said the man with only one idea in his brain.
Unfair! he’s got some awfully witty comments about New Zealand too
Strange. He wouldn’t even be able to place New Zealand on the map. Nor Belgium. Nor Austria. Nor Italy. Nor Croatia.
Nor, probably, the UK
Yes the BBC are biased statist scumbags.
However, Mr Cameron is yet another Conservative Prime Minister who has failed to get rid of their special tax – the “license fee”.
He is NOT a Conservative.
I’d call it the BFG Bank (after Roald Dahl) or as their employees call it: The Giant Peach Tree.
Did you mean The King’s Peach?
But are they not simply living up to the Thatcher/Tory principle that greed is good and every one for themselves?
Don’t leave out Blair, Brown, Balls, Cooper boy, Morley, J Smith, Eric Illsley, Denis MacShane, that pigmy red squirrel from Salford, McNulty, Prescott, Straw, Chaytor et bloody c.
For them, verily, it is true – greed is good.
Get a fucking life mod bot.
I have just made a complaint on the BBC website for the first time i might add, when filling out the complaint they even have a category in the drop down for bias. I have always know the BBC are biased to the left. But has anyone ever put a complaint in before? What kind of response can i expect? Just a standard bull shit letter no doubt?
I complained once to some luvvy in charge of the BBC ‘News’ output when they used a storyline from Eastenders as the second leader on the 6 0′clock News, confusing fantasia with reality again, I got an e-mail reply to the effect that peoples perceptions of what is news and what isn’t differs, I called him an arsehole and never heard anything more about it.
I think its a disgrace that they are allowed to charge a tv tax and then set there own agenda on what the news should be. Am i the only one thinking that the complaint box must be full to the brim with complaints about BBC bias? something has to change but has Dave got the gonads to sort it out?
yer ‘avin’ a laf arnt’ yer son, response! response! wer you born yesterdee???
What kind of response can you expect? The fuck-all kind, if my experience is anything to go by.
or, more likely, the fukorf king
++kind++
(sorry, fat fingers)
I used to get standard replies form the BBC until I began signing with a Muslim name which fitted the initials on my email. Then I began to get proper answers and apologies
Best of luck
Kamal Ahmed
The Bullshit spewed out by beboids is apalling left wing crap totally biased against the government.
When is Cameroon going to grow a pair and disband this taxpayer funded crowd of overpaid politically motivated arseholes.
what is this ‘grow a pair’ lark??
you see it everywhere
what is it?
sounds like bollocks to me
Yeah, and me.
When is Cameroon going to grow a pair….
If you aint cottoned on by now that your leader’s a complete dickhead (who’d a thought!), there’s no hope for you.
to Dave’s total and utter waste of time, space and political capital that is the Big Society tho, for which I’m sure he’s grateful.
That BS bullshit is a weight around his neck, like he hasn’t got enough shit on his plate at the moment without having to try and justify this airy fairy PR crap.
“Touch the screen………touch the screen”.
Hahaha.
Why would they?
Why bring light onto matters that will potentially bring their salaries down?
They’re not that silly.
The BBC’s must keep several taxi company’s solvent, don’t most of the executives think that a black cab counts as public transport for expense accounts purposes?
I just don’t understand it, you would think that a Labour Council would move heaven and earth to keep things like Libraries and swimming pools open. All the facilities that can be used by old people and the working man. The very people they are meant to represent.
Nah- far more important to keep the Chief Executives in the wealthy style to which they’ve become accustomed, whilst cutting front line services and blaming it on the Coalition.
With a subservient press to keep the whole scandal under wraps, the majority of the poor suffering council-taxpayers will be none the wiser.
And another thing…Why doesn’t what is laughingly named BBC news have a laugh track? It is especially missed on items like drippy willy and kate to wed.
If she turns out to be independant minded we may have to pay for another ‘accident’. And, has no one noticed how rodentlike he becomes every picture that is flooded over the media?
Hmm… misfired with this one Guido. I suspect the BBC didn’t follow-up the Telegraph story because the BBC has already done it… about three months ago. The website went bonkers over it, listing all of the top public sector earners. This is more a case of “why’s it taken the Telegraph so long to catch up?”
Sort them out Billy, but don’t hold your breath
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/14/al-qaida-supergrass-hague
Is there a problem with a 2 line bill going through parliament stating. No publicly funded employee can earn more in any one year than the prime minister of UK. There does that sound like a problem ?
What I want to know is, what has Max Wall look-alike Will Gompert done to shoot to fame on BBC. He’s on every night.
It simply cannot have anything to do with talent or good looks; although I admit there is a kind of morbid fascination with the weird.
Is he the nephew of someone important in BBC Management, perhaps?
It is quite right that these Council Officers are paid such huge salaries, it is us Councillors who set their levels of pay. I should know because I am also a Councillor with portfolio responsiblity in Portsmouth, as well as being an MP. The Council Officers set our allowances levels, we recently had a 39% rise in ours, in Portsmouth. The fact that both groups are involved in this decision making, ensures total impartiality, I am sure you will agree. By the way, the Chief Executive Portsmouth City Council is also quite rightly paid more than the Prime Minister, he is also a member of my Lodge.
The Big Society!!! We commen mortals should take to the streets turf out all these over payed idiots and run our own councils. Why are the Brits so wimpish? I know what most people want. Streets cleaned, good local services, and the councils to mind their own bloody business. They are supposed to be public servants not mini gestapo officers living off the fat of the land.
It’s just dishonest reporting Guido – and you are among the guilty. The salary of the PM is a very small part of the payback for that job – incredible pension, book deals, speaking tours, free (and very impressive) housing, private jet. Council leaders simply don’t compare when you open your eyes.
Lies, damn lies and and an arbitrary statistic.