New leader of Manchester City Council

[JASR]

Her profile on Linkedin makes interesting reading she has actually had 2 jobs TK Max and waitress. Both coincide with her time at MMU.
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The spelling mistakes don’t bode well…

 

[blueish swede]

Congratulations Bev.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

to be fair he had done a little more than work in Dragons Chinese and was 55 not 36.

Yes. His career has been founded almost entirely on habitual mendacity (for example, it got him sacked from his first job in journalism), as well as a Panglossian penchant in more recent times for insisting that all is fine in the best of all possible worlds while it is apparent to the rest of us that everything is slowly turning to shit in the country that he presides over.

 

[jazzy]

I take it this well qualified person will get a salary that equals her outstanding & proven leaderships skills . Maybe not as I belive its the best paid local authority job In the country bar London

 

[LongsightM13]

The spelling mistakes don’t bode well…

Neither does the fact she appears to believe the CPS stands for ‘the Crime Prosecution Service’

 

[Corky]

I take it this well qualified person will get a salary that equals her outstanding & proven leaderships skills . Maybe not as I belive its the best paid local authority job In the country bar London

That is the chief exec on around £250k, the leader gets about £61k expenses/allowances.

 

[ganganvince]

I take it this well qualified person will get a salary that equals her outstanding & proven leaderships skills . Maybe not as I belive its the best paid local authority job In the country bar London

Councillors get allowances and expenses not salaries dependant on responsibilities last year she claimed 18.5k on top of the 17.5k basic Richard Leese totaled around 62k

 

[jazzy]

That is the chief exec on around £250k, the leader gets about £61k expenses/allowances.

So 61k which is not taxable, not a bad amount of money for zero experience

 

[Blue Mist]

You voted for Boris the journalist and ****.
She was elected, you lost, get over it.

She wasn't elected!
I think that's the point

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I might be wrong, but I don’t think she will actually have any real say or power. Manchester council seem to be in the back pocket of developers and from a far quite a few of them seem corrupt

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

She wasn't elected!
I think that's the point

No council leader is elected. If that is your issue, it’s with the system, not her.

Technically, we didn’t vote for Boris to be PM. He was chosen by his party, in the same way this lady has been.

 

[lloydie]

She wasn't elected!
I think that's the point

You're wrong.

 

[Blue Mist]

I might be wrong, but I don’t think she will actually have any real say or power. Manchester council seem to be in the back pocket of developers and from a far quite a few of them seem corrupt

How very dare you. I will have you know that some of the most honest, respectable property developers there are in Manchester post on here.


And then there's Worsley (giggle)

 

[worsleyweb]

Yes. His career has been founded almost entirely on habitual mendacity (for example, it got him sacked from his first job in journalism), as well as a Panglossian penchant in more recent times for insisting that all is fine in the best of all possible worlds while it is apparent to the rest of us that everything is slowly turning to shit in the country that he presides over.

he is in a slightly different league to Bev Craig.

 

[Manc in London]

They just get told what to do by officers anyway and rubber stamp it and turn up for photos.

Have you worked in a local authority? I have worked for two, over a number of years. In my experience, it is the other way around.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

he is in a slightly different league to Bev Craig.

Of incompetence and giving fuck all about anyone but himself.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

he is in a slightly different league to Bev Craig.

Yes. If by that you mean that he currently stands on the shoulders of others in some kind of moral sewer I would agree.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

May be a breath of fresh air not connected to the old farts who take backhanders.
Drain the council swamp

 

[worsleyweb]

May be a breath of fresh air not connected to the old farts who take backhanders.
Drain the council swamp

I have worked In Manchester development for 25 years. Not once has anyone asked for a back hander or been offered one and I have negotiated 106 contributions and planning permissions for nearly 2 decades.

 

[Corky]

Have you worked in a local authority? I have worked for two, over a number of years. In my experience, it is the other way around.

In my experience they have little technical knowledge of the areas (as you would expect), you tell the the issues, the solution and they sign it off after s.151 officer, monitoring officer and relevant directors have all signed off the recommendation.

They may get into a heated debate on stuff like car parking going up 10p or dog fouling, but rarely the important stuff like major capital projects or cuts to services and staff.