If ever you have half a million spare…1

Tim Aker Campaign

Even though we got today’s non-job from a supporter’s research into their local council, we have gone through the Guardian Society jobs pages and, naturally, found some startling adverts for local government jobs.

Since I’ve been trawling through the Guardian jobs pages, I’ve seen the odd job over £100,000 (remember this is a hundred thousand of your money) but this week must be some kind of record. Look at the following all from one week:

Corporate Director at Wrekin Council – £113,000
Director of Manchester Improvement Programme at Manchester City Council – £110,000
Executive Director of Children and Young People at South Tyneside Council – £106,000
Director of Corporate Finance and Audit at Ealing Council – £110,000
Strategic Director of Education and Children’s Services at Slough Borough Council – £120,000

The totals of these jobs run to over half a million pounds of taxpayers money. And that’s just the start. Add in the pensions and operating costs and you’re looking at well over a million pounds for only 5 taxpayer funded jobs in local government.

This is the scale of the problem facing us. The public sector payroll is growing ever more, taking more of our taxes as the politicians sit silent. It’s up to us to fight back. Join us by emailing [email protected] or calling us on 0845 330 9554 to get involved in the campaign. Write that letter for lower taxes, lobby your councillor or MP and tell your friends and colleagues about the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Every bit we do helps the cause.

Tim Aker

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john Graham

It amazes me how the Public sector uses private sector titles like “executives” and “agencies” and “corporate” etc etc etc to make themselves more grand and possibly justify the gotesque ammounts of wage theft they indulge in to pay themselves, the attitude of “its what the private sector gets” is rife in the “public” sector neatly overlooking their pensions, perks and dubious practices ( J Prescott being a fine example).
Also I am sure the pensioners of Wrekin are delighted to know that Wrekin Council will have a corporate director and will no doubt smile with joy when yet another tax bill arrives to pay for him or her….