ON rolls the local government gravy train in East Lancashire.
Hardly have the Tories got control at Hyndburn than they boost the number of specialist posts for councillors and send the allowances bill rocketing up by 20 per cent to £64,500.
Councillors in Blackburn with Darwen, we find, are set to award themselves a much more modest increase in allowances -- of just 3.5 per cent extra. Their yardstick is the rise of this order that council employees are due to get.
How noble of them to go by this comparison.
With the pay rises of which workers, I wonder then, were they comparing themselves 12 months ago when they put their allowances up by 10 per cent?
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