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News and Comment May 2022

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29 May (Part 1) - Labour’s new faces in Bexley

Zainab Asunranu Baljeet GillThe main reason for seeking out a written Agenda at last week’s Council meeting is that it provides a permanent record of which Councillor has picked up what plum job and what they are to be paid for filling the hole.

The new and old Cabinet Member names have been added to my list. (Committee appointments coming later.)  The Opposition ‘shadows’ have come from Labour’s Press Release. (Click for complete list of names and appointments.)

There are a few surprises there; Wendy Perfect no longer has a big job and Nicola Taylor who has brought so many housing disasters to our attention has moved to Social Care and Health.

Buried within the Agenda is news that Bexley Conservatives plan to give themselves more money. They are going to ignore the recommendations made by the London Councils’ Panel on Renumeration and instead gamble on the pay award to staff being higher and take that instead.

Their increase is not yet settled.

Labour Leader Stefano Borella tried to remind the Conservatives that the current £9,798 a year is an Allowance intended to cover expenses and is not a salary to be raised in line with staff pay.

No one on the Conservative side was interested in what he had to say.

 

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