Cutting councillors allowances

At the first council assembly of the new Labour administration they made a great fuss of saving £70,000. Majority of this saving was cut from scrutiny responsibilities. Not a great start and certainly sending the wrong signals about openness and wanting to be scrutinised. Cynic in me thought of leopards and spots.

It gets worse. It turns out the £70,000 saving is a saving on what will be paid. So lots of talk about reducing allowances but in parallel lots of increases. So Cabinet councillors were proclaimed as taking a cut but actually are getting a rise.

I really feel saddened that the cynic in me has been shown to not have cynical enough.

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