Highs & Lows of Middlesbrough Council

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Cuts in services across boro but hey no cuts in expenses or pay for those at the top

Middlesbrough’s chief executive, Ian Parker, was paid £142,650
8 per cent increase on the year before, despite a pay freeze across the council.
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Last night Mr Pickles told the Daily Mail: ‘It is the height of hypocrisy that you have chief execs at Labour-run authorities awarding themselves bumper pay rises whilst subjecting their staff to a pay freeze.

Cut your pay or go, furious Pickles tells town hall chiefs as it’s revealed some take pay rises of 13 per cent
By Daniel Martin
Last updated at 11:28 PM on 1st March 2012
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You don't need a chief executive of a Town Hall - you need a Senior Town Clerk. Stop giving them 'corporate' names - they are public servants, supposed to be serving the public, and I mean the majority, not the minority which most councils seem to believe they should do. Get rid of the outreach workers, the climate change activists, the equal opportunity manager and their staff. It is time to pull the belt in, and cut the cloth accordingly. Go back to being called Town Halls, clerks etc. and get the front line jobs back in place. Britain is full of filthy towns and cities, fully of filthy pavements, roads, and dirty buildings. Rubbish is strewn around, rats running around, people spitting because they think it is the norm. Clean the place up by employing more folks to the front line, and get rid of the administrators (oh and cut their sick time down, their flexitime down unless they clock in and out).
- Karen, ex pat USA, 2/3/2012 0:53
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