[andrewb]

Originally Posted by garinda

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?

Well for example, would you have a problem if HBC had voted in favour of all the independent bodies recommendations in the last example of such?