DO the Blackburn councillors who have awarded themselves increases claim, like those in Westminster, that it is not the recipients who make these huge awards?
Even so, it is they who accept them.
Tony Blair ordered his Cabinet to reject that £16,000 extra they were to receive. But why should they? Some have not yet arranged their office and certainly not proven they are capable of fulfilling the position allotted to them.
Ken Clarke, who crippled the Tories and squeezed the economy so we could join the Single Currency, awarded us on the basic pension an increase of £90 a year while MPs have received an increase of £9,000.
New Labour boasts it will correct that which is unjust. Is there anything more unjust than percentage salary increases?
They are a major cause of inflation, price increases and the ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots.'
J ROBINSON, Hurstwood Avenue, Blackburn.
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