This guy in pembroke who earns more than

[saaby93]

The Pembroke Council Chief financial affairs crops up again every few months
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wale...
So far he's done nothing wrong.

How can Pembroke of all places afford it all?

[Kermit power]

Pah!

That's nothing! Our local lollipop lady earned Aviva last year.

[anonymous-user]

saaby93 said:

How can Pembroke of all places afford it all?

They can't. This is going to down about as well as a st sandwich with residents.

[hornetrider]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/pembr...

[supersingle]

Attracting top talent!

[Dick Dastardly]

Whilst "councillor gets £90k Porsch" is a great headline, it was actually hybrid and Panameras aren't that bad to lease as no buffer wants then, so it probably isn't all that bad. If he'd gone for half of the range rovers available, it would have cost tax payers double, but probably wouldn't have been picked up by the media.

[anonymous-user]

Dick Dastardly said:

Whilst "councillor gets £90k Porsch" is a great headline, it was actually hybrid and Panameras aren't that bad to lease as no buffer wants then, so it probably isn't all that bad. If he'd gone for half of the range rovers available, it would have cost tax payers double, but probably wouldn't have been picked up by the media.

.....and yet he didn't have the sense to actually do that. A Panamera is hardly necessary nor fitting for the job of a relatively minor public servant and is so obviously going to bring on a st storm, quite properly.

I repeat. He didn't have the sense to see that. Total fkwit.

[Jasandjules]

1. Why the f**k are these people getting 200k payoffs?
2. What kind of local Govt person doesn't realise that their company car should be a bland, fairly cheap machine when "we are all in this together"..

[CBR JGWRR]

Dick Dastardly said:

Whilst "councillor gets £90k Porsch" is a great headline, it was actually hybrid and Panameras aren't that bad to lease as no buffer wants then, so it probably isn't all that bad. If he'd gone for half of the range rovers available, it would have cost tax payers double, but probably wouldn't have been picked up by the media.

Umm, while my knowledge of leasing could be written in its entirety on a postage stamp, I am only looking at the first entry on Bing, and it is 1 am and I cant sleep so I am not at my best, I can find a Panamera for £685pm pre-VAT and the cheapest Evoques start at £240pm pre VAT. It does become a lot closer as you move up the range mind, and if you wanted Panamera hybrid or Range Rover Sport then it is only slightly in the Rovers favour. As far as I can tell...

[Fishtigua]

Our local Lieutenant Governor has just splashed out 12k on a new car. The garage I used to work for serviced the old car: it was a clunker.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-29...

[Don]

Fishtigua said:

Our local Lieutenant Governor has just splashed out 12k on a new car. The garage I used to work for serviced the old car: it was a clunker.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-29...

Given the size of Guernsey vs the wealth generated by its successful industries I should have thought a Tesla would be a good replacement.

[V8 Fettler]

Pembroke Council said:

Because this vehicle is no longer in use, we are now in a position to disclose the details

Bizarre that it should be a secret when paid for with public money.

[aw51 121565]

Dick Dastardly said:

Whilst "councillor gets £90k Porsch" is a great headline ...

... he's not a councillor .

He's the former chief executive and as such was an employee of the county council (no-one voted for him except those involved in the interview process for that post).

By comparison, the "top councillor" (who some of the public voted in as a councillor) will have the title of "the leader of the council" (some of "the council leader"'s colleagues will have later voted for him/her to hold that exalted position).

For info, the councillors seem to run the asylum with the council officers doing what the councillors ask/tell them to do .

[Don]

aw51 121565 said:

For info, the councillors seem to run the asylum with the council officers doing what the councillors ask/tell them to do .

Are you suggesting that unelected officials who have unlimited time and resources to throw at any public issue they care to meddle with might actually do what poorly paid volunteer evening and weekend elected, and therefore political, amateurs say?

Or even pay attention to what the utterly unpaid general public might think?

In my experience this is a somewhat rose-tinted view of how local government works.