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26 April (Part 1) - Seems fair enough

I no longer look at the News Shopper. There was a time when I would be looking at the online version as soon as possible every Wednesday morning. Indeed there was a time when a copy would come clattering through my letter box the same afternoon. Recently I’ve been very close to shutting off their email alerts but this morning they regurgitated something which I had ignored earlier in the month. A Taxpayers’ Alliance report on excessive Council salaries.
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Bexley’s Chief Executive is the highest paid in South East London on £213,000 a year. Seems entirely fair to me. Bexley has by far the highest Council Tax rate in South East London too. That’s the way the system works isn’t it?

In 2012 when the Chief Executive was getting £209,000, Labour’s 2022 election candidate for Erith told me and my friend Elwyn to our faces and while in the Council Chamber that he didn’t think that sum was enough. He wasn’t joking, he gave his reasons. Socialists (†). Don’t you just love ’em?

† This comment provoked an immediate protest that the candidate is definitely not a Socialist. That is likely correct, he earned a lot more money than I ever did! (Probably he alone could afford the 40% tax raid.)
Note. When I went to the News Shopper’s report my virus protection flagged up a TechScam threat.

 

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