WHAT IS A JOB WORTH?

Our economy is about the sixth largest in the world, yet we're told we're broke. What rubbish, we're merely spending our money on the wrong things like Local Authority Chief Executives who take home over £300,000 per year. This is OBSCENE.

Even if these people were being paid £100,000 it would be too much. I would hazard a guess that their authorities are over budget and requiring to make dramatic and drastic cuts and even then they will still be over budget and short of funds. They should not just have a pay cut, they should have a P45 because none of them are competent senior managers.

All our local authorities are over borrowed and over budget. What makes the executives think they deserve high salaries? It is obvious why they work for local government, they could not hold down a job in commerce or industry for very long, or even more unlikely, manage a business by themselves.

Every business has to live within it means or it goes bust. Our local authorities and our central government have gone bust, yet the remunerations and pensions of all the idiots that run them go up and up. It is time to call a halt. A graduated remuneration scale for ALL public employees should be defined and enshrined in law then we will not have the ludicrous state of affairs where a Local Authority Chief Executive is getting paid more than the Prime Minister.