tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post1498198165553824107..comments2023-12-11T08:49:46.305+00:00Comments on Dizzy Thinks: Rewarding councillors for failure?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-47940559827947187662007-12-09T20:47:00.000+00:002007-12-09T20:47:00.000+00:00"Now, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, b..."Now, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but being a councillor is about doing something voluntarily for your local area."<BR/><BR/>I think you are absolutely correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-62964727226776840432007-12-09T20:07:00.000+00:002007-12-09T20:07:00.000+00:00You are spot on Dizzy, it is not supposed to be a ...You are spot on Dizzy, it is not supposed to be a career. But changes to some larger local authorities and the move to Unitaries means some Councillors are effectively full time and earn quite a whack.<BR/><BR/>The sly thing about the recommendations is there are more Conservative Councillors than Labour ones. So if the proposals are taken up Labour can say it is apolitical and therefore not a partisan attempt to line their own pockets. It is contemptible.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936858144046032905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-89277913723253697852007-12-09T17:16:00.000+00:002007-12-09T17:16:00.000+00:0010 meetings a month and read all the papers and go...10 meetings a month and read all the papers and go on site visits and join in public consultations and handle the residents' problems and realise that you really ought to take on some of the other charitable tasks that the Council is pledged to find people to do.. At least, that's what a Councillor in my city should be doing, and thus its really more than a full time job if you do it diligently - some treat it like that. Not the proper way to run Council - and I'm not talking about Executive Cabinet Members, who have an even worse job. Yes, there are those with full time jobs, and those with other public sector roles (one here used to work 3 days a week for some regional body that actually didn't do us any good at all), and probably still those with the kind of businesses that means they can commit some business resources. And yes, there are Councils such as mine where the Chief Officers clearly do not do their jobs properly, and thus Executive Members and Councillors have much too high a workload: they should make it very clear to the Chief Officers that they had better shape up or else.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-50931908980682897002007-12-09T16:22:00.000+00:002007-12-09T16:22:00.000+00:00someone who is a Cabinet member for a local Counci...<I>someone who is a Cabinet member for a local Council has an salary allowance of above £25,000 a year </I><BR/><BR/>Maybe where you are, but that's nowhere near the amount up in my neck of the woods... Still, I would welcome that amount <I>if</I> it provided an incentive for competent and creative people to get involved in local government to see through good ideas and provide real leadership.Machiavelli's Understudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18150445761766304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-29917987617974973672007-12-09T14:14:00.000+00:002007-12-09T14:14:00.000+00:00I hate the fact that they made councillors a paid ...I hate the fact that they made councillors a paid job.<BR/><BR/>But to offer 40% as 'severance' after only 4 or five years work??? Can they make it a law that we all are entitled to such generous redundancy payments? I was made redundant after 7 years with a company a couple of years ago and I got 7 weeks pay, it hardly seems fair that politicians of any flavour always seem to come out better than the rest of us.Shug Niggurathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07436692879508902713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-57947410945884390192007-12-09T09:56:00.000+00:002007-12-09T09:56:00.000+00:00But Dizzy, you have missed a trick here - who says...But Dizzy, you have missed a trick here - who says that the WON'T go on the dole once they have pocketed that £ 10,000 ? After all, without a job they would be entitled ....<BR/><BR/>Alan DouglasAlan Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071898364060640779noreply@blogger.com