I'm no massive political buff, but this thread is ridiculous!
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Originally Posted by g jones
Once again cr*p. Sloppy research.
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[lots of stuff about how Cyfr's figures are wrong, with percentages to back up the argument]
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Personally, I don't want to see my council leader insulting a person's ability to do research in such a manner. If there's a problem with it, simply point out the error. As it was...
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Originally Posted by g jones
Apology Cyfr. Your are right I am wrong. The figures are correct but my % are wrong, calculator went AWOL.
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So now, I find that the shadow leader of the opposition can't work out percentages either? And he wants to take my money and work out how it should be spent? Hopefully not with his calculator.
Then he goes on to work out the average wage increases based on his own wage? What?! There's obviously a difficulty in figuring out the average wage increase, but apparently the average household income is 28k.***
After reading this thread, I feel very disinclined to vote labour in the May elections!
A 52.7% wage rise over 6 years sounds good to me. And only a 45% raise in taxes over 10 years = double bonus. This looks pretty good to me. I can't "see how much is being wasted." Nor do I think that "It is the most expensive Council in Britain & probably the worst".
***(Average here should be mean, if there's no skew - Or median, if the wages are skewed by many people earning upward of 100k. This ought to take account of the worries of Claytonender - Median values are not affected by skew) Another worry of mine is using job adverts to show an average. Just because a job isn't advertised doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Any higher wage jobs are probably obtained via promotion. Therefore, using job finding websites will bias the results towards lower wage jobs!