Toss pots.............

I despair with these local authority staff earning huge salaries – and it seems there are even more on high salaries since it was last reviewed last year. See the BBC report here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8598008.stm

In fact a rise of 24% during the worst recession in most people’s lifetimes. Why is this being allowed to happen?

I love this quote: “A councils' spokesman said the pay was good value compared with private firms.” Who do they think they are kidding?

“Conservative leader David Cameron has promised to publish the full names and detailed pay packages of every local government employee earning more than about £60,000 if his party wins the general election.”

And:

“Liberal Democrat communities spokeswoman, Julia Goldsworthy, said public servants should have pay rises capped at £400 so the lowest-earners saw the biggest relative increase.

She said: "People are right to be angry that so many public servants are earning more than the prime minister while many people are losing their job and home.

"The drive to squeeze every last bit of value from taxpayers' money shouldn't stop at town halls. We need to take a cleaver to the number of politicians, government departments and unelected quangos."

I could not put it better myself. I have to go lay down now after agreeing with a Liberal Democrat. It must be my age or something – perhaps I have a fever coming on. You know, like man flue.

Wilt

Tossers...........

And what is exactly wrong about setting limits on the pay scales of local authority directors? Where will they go to get better rates – Botswana? As well as politicians “not getting it” and trade unions (i.e. Unite) living in never never land, it seems local authorities are suffering with some alien infliction that does not recognise a thing called recession, and even without a recession those in the public sector need to get real. What a bunch of tossers.

See the CC article here: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2010/03/29/114175/Employers-warn-against-budget-plan-for-director-pay.htm

What planet are these people living on? Only the likes of Wilt are allowed to earn those kinds of sums, cos he earns it through hard graft and does not expect a golden goodbye or copper bottomed pension scheme, up to 12 months sick pay, loads of paid holiday and all the other associated perks that are an anathema to the private sector. If Wilt does not work, he does not get paid – simple and worryingly truthful. He is not looking for a handout from the taxpayer and caters for his own time off sick or holiday, and pays for his own private pensions and ISAs that will keep him in comfort in his old age – at least 10 pints of cider a day and that is just for Salty Dog.

Wilt