Cllr getting paid for not turning up - Wigan West - Cllr Ramsdale. Holding Labour Council to account

 

Labour Cllrs tell you they don't get a salary for being a Cllr. They are playing with technicalities. they get what is called an allowance. To you and me it is what is the difference? Well I know this because when I was voted in back in 2004 I did not take my Cllr allowance. I did not claim expenses either. They are different. 

But the difference between a Salary and an allowance is with a salary you get sick pay and holiday pay. As a Cllr you get paid regardless. And what do you have to do as a Cllr to get your £15,000 a year?  You are going to be surprised here. You just have to turn up to just 1 meeting every 6 months. Wow. I hear you say.

But what happens if you do not turn up to a single meeting in a 6 month period i hear you ask? Well the Council can either do what is called a vacant seat and a By Election is called if 2 people in that ward sign a petition and serve it to the Town hall or the Council can vote to ignore the 6 month rule and continue to pay you.

Above is a picture of Labour Cllr for Wigan West - Beech Hill in the main. She has just turned up to 1 meeting in 8 months and in fact I suspect when I look at the records of Council meetings they voted to allow her keep her on and paying her.

Now there could be a case where someone is ill and they may be hoping to get better and come back and so I do agree for the 6 month rule to be used in those cases but I think the Council should stop paying Cllrs if they have not turned up to a single meeting. Why should tax payers keep paying them?

I will be campaigning for Wigan Council to amend it's rules and whereby they suspend the 6 month rule and allow anyone to stay on as a Cllr then they do not pay them after the 6 month period. After all there are not many tax payers that get more than 6 Month full pay so why should Cllrs be any different? 

 

  

Time to clear out the rot called Labour

 

Up until 2016 I had been a Cllr for Wigan Council. Since then I have been involved with a number of issues with Wigan Council including when this Labour controlled council tried to remove your right to vote. The single pillar in which our society is built on. Without that we have nothing. One example was when the Chief Executive at that time a Ms Donna Hall called an unlawful by election only for us to stop it in the High Court with just hours before the polls opened and after hundreds of postal voters had voted. That cost Wigan Council tax payers - yes you and me - approx £250,000. Labour playing their stupid political games and using our money to do it. 

After that time the then Chief Executive was sacked, she will say she was allowed to resign. I'm calling it what it is - SACKED! The labour group got a coup going and ousted the then Leader Peter Smith for his role in the whole mess.

Just prior to being sacked the then Chief Executive got her special friend in GMP to try and bully and intimidate me. That story is here, if you want to read about it. Also just before she left she raised the money that the Council pays into her pension. Why does this matter if she was going? Because she was what was called a final salary pension scheme.

So when the Council got a new leader and chief executive you would hope all the bully, intimidating vote rigging would stop. But of course why would it. They think we will just play a better game. Try not get caught. 

Then we have a new Labour government who lie worse than the Tories. Stealing WASPI pensions after campaigning to give them the money they are so rightly owed. They took £300 of winter fuel allowance from vulnerable pensioners. Even Labour's own report says that action will result in people dying. Yet they give millions to their Union Paymasters by way of pay rises and other foreign countries in foreign aid. Deny an inquiry into the gang rapes scandal. What are they hiding? The truth!

But we must rid the Country of this Labour rot. We must expose them at ever turn, fight them at every corner. 

So keep tune and join the fight that will be to rid us of the Labour ROT. It is time for a clear out!