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Originally Posted by Neil
If you class their expenses as pay the hourly rate is often under minimum wage for the good busy ones
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Hmm....
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...ances_1516.pdf
http://council.lancashire.gov.uk/doc...20payments.pdf
Take, for example, ol' sleepyhead Dawson..he was paid around 20k, which my shaky maths shows that he would need to provide roughly 8 hours a day, 7 days a week for a full 52 weeks at the then minimum wage of £6.95 an hour
Oh and a little further digging... (check out 'item 4 cost comparisons')
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...e_Appendix.pdf
Overpaid or what???
Thing is..expenses and allowances were meant to allow 'ordinary people' to stand for council without having significant hardship by losing money from wages (kinda like when you are called up for jury service)..but it's been totally bastardised (by council vote) and if you can get on enough committees, you can sit at home and comment on daytime TV like this former councillor did...
Labour's Stoke candidate apologises to wife and daughter for describing women as 'polished turds'
So...please stop with the altruism crud!