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Originally Posted by jaysay
When you take into account what leaders of other councils get, its not much. Hyndburn is a business which spends around £14 million per annum, in comperison with what MPS get its a pitance, their exes are more than that
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With all the budget cuts in services, it seems self indulgent to be looking to rack up your own pay first.
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NOT have the accurate figures but will offer an opening gambit...
A good guess...The leader is on £22,000 basic plus £11,000 bonus (Special Responsibility Allowance) as leader. This has risen considerably from about £12,000 plus £6,000 about 6 year ago. Two changes happened last year to scale this up considerably. You could only claim 1 SRA/Bonus. That was removed. So the Leader who chairs 4 or 5 committees can now add all those on too. The highest is about £5,000 pa each he medium £2,500 and the lesser £500 (such as Chair of Oswaldtwistle Area Council).
Secondly the 75% rule was removed. This affects Tories more than Labour. Only hard working Labour Councillors have survived our meltdown! Tories are getting elected for fun. At least 4 Tories (more in reality) got elected on the basis of not attending any meetings and not being tied to doing any Council work, just being a Conservative vote in full council. Even meetings they are on there attendance is poor. The 75% rule which was scrapped (partly for legal reasons) meant that if you attended less than 75% of your meetings, you now did not lose your allowances.
Both PB (he's done a u-turn) and I agree that the 75% rule should come back. Legal keep saying it is challengeable. PB did get a whisper I was fed up of his lazy councillors and something needed to be done an we were planing on taking action. Don't know if he jumped in because of my 'leaked' comments or because he felt that way.