Last night at the Hendon and District residents forum, I was given a "press release" by Councillor Hugh Rayner, which tried to justify the fat cat allowance rises for councillors. As you may know some Tory Councillors will have allowance rises of up to 100%. Councillor Rayners press release said that this was OK, because they'd cut the allowances for other councillors to pay for it. There are many things wrong with Councillor Rayners logic. I was trying to think of a suitable response when I went to bed last night.
I awoke this morning to listen to LBC and the news that yet another young child had starved to death due because of council neglect. That is all we need to know. If some counciollors have had their allowances cut then fine. Use the money to pay for more social workers to prevent this happening in Barnet. Don'[t use it to fund rises for their mates. How many front line workers would the rises pay for? How many people may that save. Their is no justification.
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But there are savings amongst Senior Officers to be made as well.
Why can the Borough Solicitor get paid shed loads of cash, and then go to a Residents Forum and SHOUT at the residents?
GLA member Roger Evans blogs that the Minister for London (effectively so, but also other things, of course) has appeared before the GLA - something always resisted under Pa Broon's government.
http://city-hall.blogspot.com/2010/07/ministers-question-time.html
About time. Another welcome minor constitutional change.
He also points out that the bless-ed Theresa, Rail-in-London Minister, might also answer GLA questions.
Put that in your diary, Theresa.
It's because he did not leave the "polytechnic" law library behind when he graduated.
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