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COMMENT: Labour's Curious Hiring and Firing Mentality
July 23, 2010 9:53 AM
One thing's certain - there's something very peculiar about the thinking processes down at Planet Lambeth.
Just at a time when Labour politicians think it is okay to issue redundancy notices to 60 staff in the borough's 15 one o'clock clubs, they also decide to increase their own political advisers by two and raise the annual salary bill from £312,000 to £430,000.
Lambeth's Labour Group already has more political advisers than Lewisham and Southwark put together and now wants to boost their shameful total to nine.
Of course Labour Lambeth politicians have form in being generous to themselves in hard times. No sooner had they been elected in 2006 than they doubled their own 'responsibility' allowances while hiking home care charges for the elderly from £7.50 and hour to £17.50 an hour.
Many people must be wondering why local politicians need political advisers in the first place - and down in Lambeth Town Hall Labour's political advisers might also be thought to offer pretty poor value for money to the public purse given the crass decisions that have emerged and the shoddy services provided.
At a time when the same Labour politicians are wailing about hard times and the need for restraint many people will be rightly outraged that they are apparently so isolated from reality that they think that shelling out salaries for advisers on an average £46,000 a year is in any way justified.
So while hard-pressed mums may soon be unable to find somewhere to leave the kiddies to play in safety, Lambeth Labour's spoilt kiddie councillors will have right royal political minders in charge of the municipal play pit.
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