A dead duck? (Was RIP s22 notices SI)

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:27:22 +0100


Owen Lewis wrote:

[reasonable-sounding stuff snipped up to]

> Their local councillor lives in their street they know and rather dislike
> the snotty-nosed clerk from the rates office; they either know or strongly
> suspect that the planning and highways departments are corrupt. They know
> that that employment in local government offices is an over paid sinecure
> which they support directly from their own pockets.

Not over-paid. If they are in a job, and they are lucky enough not to
work for the NHS, then they know the council workers probably get paid a
lot less than then they do themselves.