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Showing results 1 to 25 of 37 Search took 0.00 seconds. Search: Posts Made By: Ken Moss

Forum: General Chat 28-01-2011, 06:44

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses That is precisely my intention. I'll keep you updated.

Forum: General Chat 27-01-2011, 12:24

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses There are always more than enough sandwiches to go around and I think the staff snaffle up the ones that are left. Fair enough really, they clean up the plates and make sure we have a flask of hot...

Forum: General Chat 27-01-2011, 08:07

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses They will be reduced by quite a lot, Simon. A few of us have been going through the figures in detail and we spend a shocking amount on individual expenses, many of which cannot be justified as...

Forum: General Chat 27-01-2011, 06:54

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Fair point. It has varied between about £2000-£4000 a year since 2004.

Forum: General Chat 26-01-2011, 07:42

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses All catering seems to be done by Hurns and sets the council back between roughly £2000-£4000 per year, last year it was £4059.79. Occasional one-off payments have also been made from the Cabinet...

Forum: General Chat 26-01-2011, 06:25

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses I think a certain tongue-in-cheek factor is not quite coming across in my posts. However, I'm not being entirely flippant either about whittling out spending like this so that the people who do...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 18:41

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses I wondered when that little nugget would get another showing. Printing council literature is pretty much a necessity, someone has to do it so why not a local firm? Butties, on the other hand, are a...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 15:54

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Don't know about that. I've certainly not had biccies at any meeting while I've been a councillor although I did suggest some time ago that miniscule subs for tea and coffee wouldn't go amiss. ...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 15:53

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Yes I do, but on the days where I'm out landscaping I leave the house at around 8am so a packed lunch is a pre-requisite. On the days where I am editing it isn't so awkward but we're still getting a...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 15:40

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses None of those today, a very suspect omission from the sandwich repertoire. No corned dog either. Or Spam. The good old traditions of this mill town are being allowed to die by a corrupt...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 15:27

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Yes, Cllr Hurn does the catering. Not entirely sure of the ethics of that but it's a small point. My own waistline, much like council spending, is in need of trimming so that's another reason.

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 15:21

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Sort of, but I class myself as one of the less better off councillors and it has been of no hardship to me to make a packed lunch in a morning when I know I will be working away from home that day....

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 14:21

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses I was in a meeting up at Scaitcliffe this lunchtime and butties were provided. Now whilst I wouldn't knock the quality of what was on offer, I would question whether we really needed them. I...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 10:49

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Both left alone playing with our balls or spurned like someone who isn't welcome at their party? I've always been quite good at Solitaire and the thought of Conservative Blind Man's Buff conjures up...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 09:23

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses So I understand, marvellous thing this interweb. A virtual version of sexual assault. I still think I'll give it a miss. It was pointed out that he's signed up to the 'Keep Petrol Under £1.00...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 09:15

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses I might just do that, as an act of cross-party solidarity and in an effort to engender wider-ranging non-political debates within the confines of the neutral discussion ground that is Accrington Web....

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 09:07

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Still not heard a single bad word about Ken Hargreaves but unfortunately I haven't met him either. As regards Labour councillors on AccyWeb, I joined about a year ago when Gordon Brown was still...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 07:37

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses If I've given the impression that I expect council employees to be neutered puppets then that's not what I'm trying to say at all. There are some very influential and highly competent officers at...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 06:59

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses Oh God, here we go..... I'm sure that when Labour take control again AccyWeb will be awash with Conservative councillors and the reds will disappear into the ether, never to be heard from again....

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 06:44

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses That's one thing I am in favour of unless it has been discussed with the officer in question beforehand. Councillors sign up for a life in the public eye, council officers generally just want a job...

Forum: General Chat 25-01-2011, 06:35

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses The scrutineers (sounds like a bunch of pirates) are nothing to do with the Cabinet and so are one step removed. I have to say that by and large the Resources committee that I sit on doesn't pull...

Forum: General Chat 24-01-2011, 17:49

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses I've heard tell of these old committees and it didn't sound like a bad system at all. I've no major beef with the current system although it's pretty disorganised and no one has a clue what each...

Forum: General Chat 24-01-2011, 17:21

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses My estimate wasn't far wrong, although closer inspection of the allowances available has thrown up some interesting nuggets of info that I haven't previously looked at. For example, thanks to...

Forum: General Chat 21-01-2011, 18:01

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses I understand that Neighbourhood Management Boards are to cease and be subsumed into the Area Councils. Graham Jones made rather a success of his local NMB and managed to secure more money than Peter...

Forum: General Chat 21-01-2011, 13:41

Replies: 177 Councillors expenses Views: 4,103 Posted By Ken Moss Re: Councillors expenses You're unsure of the morality of politicians giving up money for the good of their residents??? Strike a light, Margaret. I'm glad I don't live in your world.

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