THE decision to hire interim finance director Rachel Musson illustrates the disrespect shown by Brighton and Hove City Council for its taxpayers.
The council and the trade unions need to recognise the fact that the taxpayer is a customer not a servant.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance is an unpopular organisation in certain quarters but its willingness to support the cause of ordinary people is to be commended.
A private firm faced with a reduction in its income would make cuts and rationalise its operations.
Instead it seems local authorities seem to cut services instead of bureaucracy and inefficiency.
Refuse collection and other services are shambolic. Despite this the council faced with a £26 million shortfall hires an executive director for finances at the rate of nearly a thousand pounds per day.
The local authority would be far better off by asking the TaxPayers’ Alliance to go through every aspect of council work and funding to identify savings.
This would benefit everyone bar those on the gravy train!
Richard J Szypulski
Wiltshire House, Lavender Street
Brighton
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