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9.00am, Burning Our Money: Weekly Waste Watch - 80

"Total for week- £6,155,250,000"

Media Coverage

- Slim down the fat cats

"There was one consequence that was harder to spot at the time: the rise of the public sector fat cat. Today we report research from the TaxPayers’ Alliance, a group which campaigns for the aims of “lower taxes and better government”. It shows there are now 17 people in the public sector earning more than £500,000 a year and one, Adam Crozier, chief executive of Royal Mail, who takes home more than £1m." - Sunday Times

- Quango fat cats reap the price

"WHEN Stephen Carter ran Ofcom, the telecoms and broadcasting regulator, he kept a life-size poster of Michael Caine, star of the British gangster movie Get Carter, behind his office desk.

The £90m building bulges out of London’s riverside next to the site of the Rose Theatre where Shakespeare once trod the boards.

Today it is revealed as the epicentre of the public sector “fat cat” world. Ofcom has no fewer than 11 executives in the top 100 of a new “rich list” of public servants produced by the TaxPayers’ Alliance." - Sunday Times

- Fat cat row over public sector pay

"The top 300 bosses in the state sector saw their salaries increase 12.8% last year, boosting their pay to an average £237,564, according to a public sector “rich list”. Seventeen earned more than £500,000 per year.

The report prepared by the TaxPayers’ Alliance, a pressure group trying to cut tax, undermines Brown’s pledge to keep pay rises for rank and file public sector workers within the government’s 2% inflation target." - Sunday Times

Comments

[Edwin Romilly]

Edwin Romilly of the tax payers alliance is joining his voice with the majority of the electorate to say-"Its a shambles while services and other cutbacks are evident, that people in high positions in the public sector should be getting such inflated wage rises and other benefits when the hard working people and famillies of this country are hard pressed and struggling to survive..Isnt it high time fairness was given a voice..Its like we get the crumbs from the governments feast..Thankyou.Edwin

[Kenneth]

Now is the time for the government pass a law saying that percentage pay rises must be the same across all employees including the directors. And to make bonuses if paid universal to all employees not just those at the top. The success of any business is as much the result of employees work as it is the Directors etc. Come on Gordon show us you have the vision to make Britain a fairer society.