Today is my birthday – I’m still (just) slightly younger than the actor playing Doctor Who.
Our campaign to beat Barbara Keeley MP – Harriet Harman’s second-in-command – is stepping up a gear here in Worsley & Eccles South. However, unlike Salford Labour who received big backing from the trade unions, local Conservatives are reliant on small local donations to fund our campaign activities.
Can you help our campaign by buying me a (virtual) birthday drink? A few donations of just £2.50 will soon stack up – and they’ll all help towards beating Labour here in Worsley & Eccles South at the General Election. Surely that’s something we can all raise a glass to…?
You can donate to our campaign easily online – use the donate application on the right hand side of this website or click here to go through to my MyConservatives campaign page.
Thank you for your support!
Just answer my question about allowances and I might just buy you that drink!
Don’t you think it’s about time that all the Salford Councillors started to publish their earnings with regard allowances for being on the council and other bodies across the region?
All allowances received by Councillors are published in full, Andrew.
They are for Salford Council but what about allowances from GMPTE and similar bodies that councillors are on?
I bet if you added all the allowances up some Councillors are on at least £300 a week not bad. Lets hope that the hours are put in at the Civic.
Yes, allowances for the Transport, Fire & Rescue, Police and Waste Authorities are all public documents.
Of course, here in Salford, 27 of the 36 Labour Councillors get a special responsibility allowance on top of their basic allowance, compared to just 2 Conservatives and 1 Liberal Democrat. I am sure you will be asking tough questions of your Labour colleagues.
The Conservative alternative budget proposed abolishing the eight roles of Executive Support Member. They trousered £6834 each last year despite having no job description or formal role. That’s £50k in allowances saved per annum but Labour Councillors voted to keep them!
Hi Ian,
Valid comment.I agree with you 100%.
Not sure if you saw the excellent expenses programme
on BBC 4 last night.
MP’s from all parties are standing down at the next
election.No stomach for the fight or to face the
electorate at the door.
I’m sure you can realise my anger at all Politicians
regardless of Party for abusing their positions in
Parliament.
I have asked members of my own Party to do the decent
thing and stand down and let some fresh faces and
fresh ideas take their place.
I will be using my activist skills to help David Henry
in the next few weeks.
I couldn’t resist giving Norman Owen and Joe Oneil
a piece of my talk at the recent meeting in Salford
but they deserve it.
regardless of Party
Andrew, will TUSC be standing a candidate here against Barbara Keeley? After all, as Deputy Leader of the House she is responsible for the fudge and failure to agree proper new guidelines to prevent this nonsense happening again?
I’m not sure if someone would wish to stand against Barbara
under the TUSC Banner.But like I said to Norman and Joe TUSC
should look to the local elections and start getting a foothold in the Local Council.I’m sure a little scrutiny into members allowances and actual workload would uncover
many skeletons.
There needs to be a big shake up of Local Councils.I’m sure
that like most MP’S local councillors started with a sense
of Civiv Duty but is the same commitment still there?
There should be a cap of 8yrs and meetings need to take place to ensure that people still in the workplace could consider becoming a councillor.