Some time ago - long before my previous hosting service swallowed my old posts - I made a long post about the failure of our Labour Council leadership to make the City Council accessible by switching to evening meetings. At the moment, our daytime meetings mean that it requires highly flexible working hours (or the sacrifice of most of your holiday allowance) to hold down a full-time job and sit on the Council. If you don’t have any flexibility with your hours - a teacher for example - you can forget it. Salford’s Labour administration do not want you to stand for Council - you are not welcome here. A real shame.
Of course, one of the main reasons that Salford’s Labour Councillors do not want to change is that the current system suits them just fine, thank you very much. 31 of their 41 Councillors are on extra taxpayers’ money in addition to their basic allowance.
Now I don’t make a habit of linking to Liberal Democrat websites, but Swinton South Councillor Steve Cooke has been doing the sums and the net result is this must-read post about the allowances accrued by your Labour Councillors.
A Conservative-run Council would scrap the £6006 given to the eight Labour ”Executive Support” members for doing… well, to be honest, I’ve been on the Council nearly four years and never quite worked it out yet. We’d also allocate the supposedly “non-political” scrutiny chairs proportionately, rather than the current situation whereby all the allowances are handed over to Labour Councillors.
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