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Originally Posted by andrewb
If you have an independent body that you must follow then if that body recommend a limit which people are still unhappy about and demand councillors vote against it
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I don't understand what you are trying to say.
Which 'people'?
Surely if the expenses are set by an independent panel, the council should be bound to accept them, if as you say politicans aren't to set their own expenses and/or salaries.
The question I was really asking was, given the outrage in Westminster, and the call for reform and more public accountability of politicans, will this trickle down to local government level too?
Or can we expect some councillors on Hyndburn Borough Council deciding they are worth more than the expense limits recommended by an independent panel, and deciding to ignore them, and vote to award themselves massive percentage increased allowances, as they did this year?