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Originally Posted by jaysay
You could say that about MPs too but there's the old saying you pay peanuts you get monkey's, in this day and age its a none starter, people have to get time of work to carry out council duties. Councils are now multi-million pound businesses that is why they now pay allowances, so as to attract people with enough nous to do the job in hand
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Don't think that old adage works, when I started my apprenticeship councillors were not paid , and the standards were far superior than they are today. Plus most of the workforce in my old department are now agency staff, and most of the work now gets undertaken by the private sector. none of which have the required indepth knowledge or training.
This may have saved money but the public are not well served. To get back on topic a mayor with no affiliations would be able to at least strive towards a better service based on what the public deserve, not what they think it should cost.