The scandal of Tory fat cat perks is put into perspective today as Labour research reveals that Medway Conservatives have spent £1.25m of your Council Tax payers money on consultants. This at the same time Medway Conservatives are making Council staff, dinner ladies and teaching assistants redundant.
This blog has commented on the extent of incompetence we have seen on the Council for close to three years, but this is a truly staggering sum of money that has been wasted to create, yes ironically, a more 'efficient council'
The Tories talk about spending your money wisely but this shocking revelation shows that underneath we have nothing but hot air on fiscal responsibility locally.
The Labour group has also discovered that £1 million will be paid to PricewaterhouseCoopers which is apparently lending itself to this 'better for less' models.
Consultancies are known in the financial services circuit as being comprised of bright boffins who are great at grand ideas but who quickly leave before they see the results of their actions. Spending such staggering sums also show the Council lacks an ability to manage change itself which is worrying.
Labour Councillor Glyn Griffiths also highlighted the staggering sums paid in salaries to top Medway Council staff including
Chief Executive: Neil Davies - £140,640
Children's Services Director: Rose Collinson - £123,166
Regeneration & Environment Director: £119,155
The Labour Group has also discovered that since April the council has spent £300,000 on 'consultancy support' for teachers and head teachers, about £187,000 on children's services and £117,000 on street work inspections.
Councillor Jarrett may be a chancer but the figures say everything about the fiscal incompetence of his management style. Favouring over expensive consultants instead of spending on front line services is shameful at a time of fiscal austerity.
It is time to kick this long-standing incompetent, inept and utterly incapable administration from office.
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