Oct 2008 07

What a crop of councillors3

ClownsSee this from the Sun today (and you’ll read why the super-big clown city picture is appropriate):

“A CASH-strapped council is advertising for an “executive director of transformation” on a £101,000-a-year wage — to try to save money.

Town hall chiefs say the job involves making “cost-effective improvements”.

Despite the credit crunch, the employee will also get a £10,000 relocation package and lucrative final salary pension paid for by the taxpayer.

Tory-run Bournemouth Council in Dorset — which recently spent £70,000 on two granite dominoes “in the name of art” — faces a £2.4million overspend this financial year.

Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance called it “totally inappropriate”."

Now tell me you remember our campaign to stop Bournemouth’s councillors putting up their pay by 17%?  Do also recall that the Cabinet, i.e. the numpties who have created the massive overspend to be handed to you in next year’s council tax, received a 32% pay increase?  Finally, do you feel they deserved the pay increase given the £2.4 million overspend this year? 

We were right in opposing their pay increase and events have justified it.  They must be running an economic madhouse to continue to splash out on non-jobbers and six-figure salaries for council hacks given the scale of the overspend.  What’s more, they were saying their salaries were justified, that they work long hours and have to give up so much to be a councillor.  Given their track record, i’d prefer they do less than continue to do more and run Bournemouth into the ground.

If you’re angry at this disgraceful overspend, and I know I am, contact the councillors below and demand they stop squandering your money:

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 / [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]

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  • http://www.bournemouthbuzz.com bournemouth buzz

    Whilst I applaud your efforts in general, there is an important inaccuracy within the story.
    The £70,000 for the art installation was not spent by the council – it was provided by the developers engaged in the Boscombe regeneration project. This particular story was somewhat skewed in its presentation by the local paper, the Daily Echo.
    I am clarifying this because inaccuracies can distract from the intentions of the stronger and more relevant criticisms.
    There are plenty of other aspects that could be cited, including the steady reduction of free parking spaces and increase of parking charges – a ‘tax by stealth’ measure, which is exacerbated by the fact that the town hall retains several car parks for their own free use, whilst taxpayers have to foot the bill.

  • Gary Sherborne

    I say all our Councillors here for Boscombe are together about as much use as a chocolate tea pot. They represent thier own interests and those most useful to them. They know little if anything about what is going on and communicate with their constituents not at all. Shame on the lot of them.

  • Nick

    Totally agree with you Gary, I couldn’t name one councillor.
    101k for a jobsworth to save them money? They are having a laugh. I would gladly do it for free. The first step is the easiest – sack all of the jobsworths who add no value whatsoever to the economy.