Can you spare just 5 minutes of your day?7

Yesterday we blogged this story here about Bournemouth Council’s cabinet approving a salary deal that would see their pay skyrocket by 32%.  Within this pay package is a 36% increase for the Deputy Leader and a 34% increase for the Leader of the council, taking his salary to £36,000 a year!  These recommendations by the council’s ‘Independent’ Remuneration Panel were all passed by the Cabinet, without debate, this week.  Next week the Full Council votes on this remuneration package.  It’s up to us to lobby the council to reject this pay hike. 

If you’re living in Bournemouth, can you say that the quality of council services has gone up by 34%?  Of course not.  The Audit Commission report last week gave Bournemouth Council a mere 2 star rating.  To compare, the Audit Commission have 3 or 4 stars to 83% of all councils meaning Bournemouth Council has to justify this excessive pay rise for, what has been judged as, under performance.

Bournemouth’s taxpayers need your help.  Please take five minutes out of your day to send an email or call a Bournemouth Councillor to ask them to challenge and reject the councillor remuneration package at the next Full Council meeting on Thursday 21st February.

Below is a list of Bournemouth’s Councillors and their phone and email details.  Please call or email one, two or even all of them if you have the time and lobby them to reject the pay deal on Thursday.  If you can’t or don’t have the time to make these calls or send emails then please pass this blog onto other concerned taxpayers who want to do something about spiralling councillor salaries and high council tax.  The point is to urge these councillors to put taxpayer value-for-money first.  Politely ask the councillors to challenge the pay deal and to vote against it. 

Cllr Alexander Adams (Con) – 07968 123484 / [email protected]
Cllr Carol Ainge (Lib Dem) – [email protected]
Cllr Mark Anderson (Con) – 01202 775483 / [email protected]
Cllr Sue Anderson (Con) – 01202 397047 / [email protected]
Cllr Linda Bailey (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Beryl Baxter (Labour) – [email protected]
Cllr John Beesley (Con) – 07860 391219 / [email protected]
Cllr Derek Borthwick (Independent) – [email protected]
Cllr Robert Chapman (Con) – 01202 532778 /  [email protected]
Cllr Stephen Chappell (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Peter Charon (Con) – 07775556132 / 01202299996 / [email protected]
Cllr Eddie Coope (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Elaine Cooper (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Rod Cooper (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Nigel Cowley (Con) – 07709 431241 / [email protected]
Cllr Sue Cowley (Con) – 07709 431241 / [email protected]
Cllr Malcolm Davies (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Heather Drayton (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Beverley Dunlop (Con) – 07855 395117 / [email protected]
Cllr Michael Everingham (Independent) – 0794 115 2242 / [email protected]
Cllr Anne Filer (Con) – 01202 399205 / [email protected]; [email protected]
Cllr Michael Filer (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Barry Goldbart (Con) – 07734 211750 / [email protected]

Cllr Nicola Greene (Con) – 07961 936387 / [email protected]
Cllr Michael Griffiths (Con) – 07815 817222 / [email protected]
Cllr Ben Grower (Labour) – 07714 344635 / [email protected]
Cllr Paul Hughes (Con) – 07732 169122 / [email protected]
Cllr David Kelsey (Con) – 07816 417675 / [email protected]
Cllr Nick King (Con) – 07771727402 / [email protected]
Cllr Ian Lancashire (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Robert Lawton (Con) – 07974 215933 / [email protected]
Cllr Sue Levell (Lib Dem) – [email protected]
Cllr Pat Lewis (Lib Dem) – 07742 900717 / [email protected]
Cllr Stephen Macloughlin (Con) – 01202 513229 / [email protected]
Cllr Jane Montrose (Con) – 07843 062222 / jane.montrose@bournemo[email protected]
Cllr Andrew Morgan (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Ian Newport (Con) – 07971 602296 / [email protected]
Cllr Lisa Northover (Lib Dem) – 07515355982 / [email protected]
Cllr Lynda Price (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Basil Ratcliffe (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Anne Rey (Independent) – 07973 814382 / [email protected]
Cllr Christopher Rochester (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Allister Russell (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr David Shaw (Con) – 07951 511287 / [email protected]
Cllr Claire Smith (Lib Dem) – [email protected]
Cllr David Smith (Con) – 07832 186424 / [email protected]
Cllr Richard Smith (Lib Dem) – 0780 8227276 / [email protected]
Cllr Philip Stanley-Watts (Con) – [email protected]
Cllr Ted Taylor (Labour) – [email protected]
Cllr John Trickett (Con) – 07910 011239 / [email protected]
Cllr Christopher Wakefield (Con) – 07775 677162 / [email protected]
Cllr Michael Weinhonig (Con) – 07877 430667 / [email protected]
Cllr Roger West (Lib Dem) – [email protected]
Cllr Ronald Whittaker (Independent) – [email protected]

This is a test of our grassroots campaigns.  If we make enough calls to Bournemouth’s councillors and show the strength of feeling against this incredibly high pay deal at the taxpayer’s expense, we can show other councils that we won’t tolerate unjust increases elsewhere.  Please take just 5 minutes to make that call or send that email that could make all the difference.  Do let us know how many calls you’ve made and blind copy me ([email protected]) into the emails you send.  The activist who lobbies the most will get a free copy of ‘How to label a goat’ by Ross Clark as a way to thank you for your dedication. 

Finally, pass on this blog to anyone interested who might want to get involved in our grassroots campaign for lower taxes.  This is your campaign, it’s time we made our voice heard! 

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