Saturday, 19 December 2009

Fat Cats pay

Daily Telegraph: Town hall ‘fat cats’ to be named and shamed

According to the TaxPayers’ Alliance, who produce an annual Town Hall Rich List, the highest paid council officials last year were:
1. John Foster, Chief Executive, Wakefield, £545,000
2. Robin Hooper, Chief Executive, Shrewsbury and Atcham, £335,848
3. Peter Gilroy, Chief Executive, Kent, £255,000
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Openness should lead to honesty, but it will not. It is the likes of these people, but not necessarily these immediate persons, who pontificate over the pennies that means the differences for old and vulnerable people to be cold and fed at home.
Having met these types on a regular basis, I hold no reason to think they are some form of ultra-superior being. Like so many of the senior officers in HM Forces, they have gone along with the tide and feathered their own nests, where the general population struggles with the ineptitudes of their offices. I offer just one example, the insidious 1975 Social Security and Pensions Act which stole from hundreds of thousands of former regulars their legal entitlement to an equitable pension. Note that senior offices and politicians ensured that their pensions were secured, are secured and will always be secured. If I am wrong, then why has Parliament not implemented the Hutton recommendations in full, and gone one further and blocked the excessive pensions of the politicians fleeing their corrupt craft this coming election?

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