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• Sid Perkins

  • Location: Dover
  16 September 2010     09:4671085
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  Keith not trying to misrepresent you at all. Apologies if you think I have.
  
  You made what appeared to be a sarcastic posting about the blackbury's. So many are focussed on what appears to be reasonable mobile phone costs for this body whilst missing the obvious waste of money on councillors.
  
  As for how many councils, well, there is a thread somewhere about uinitary councils, so we don't really need to start it all over again here where we are trying to discuss actual spending and potential areas for making savings.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  16 September 2010     11:4171102
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  have seen those blackcurrant phones in the shops, seem fairly pricey.
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
  • Posts: 23,942
  16 September 2010     14:3471130
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  SID;
  Nope I'M on about savings in general, and cllrs should be included within any scheme.
  
  So yes a little saving there
  but unitary hasnt worked other places iv been to
  ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,463
  16 September 2010     16:2371166
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  If these cuts are so called savings why didn't councils make them years ago. Or are they cuts but called 'savings' to lessen the blow.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Ross Miller

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 17 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 3,707
  16 September 2010     20:3371215
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  Keith, £200,000 plus for a Chief Exec running a £2bn enterprise employing 45,000 staff seems pretty reasonable to me; especially compared to Chief Execs of say the nationalised banks. or similar sized private sector organisations.
  
  Marek, they did not previously make these cuts in expenditure/savings as there was no incentive to do so.
  
  However, when you consider recent reports of how public sector pay & conditions outstrip private sector http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7835366/Public-sector-pay-conditions-outstrip-private-sector-report-says.html or when one of the country's senior fire chiefs has claimed the public sector can easily cut 'bone idle' workers http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=91817 you have to wonder how much fat there really is in public sector budgets.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  16 September 2010     20:4071218
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  i must admit i was surprised to read how sometimes public sector pay can be better than private sector.
  
  i had always believed that civil servants had lower wages but better pensions and perks, bit of an eye opener.

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