WHAT kind of spoilsport is the Green Party’s Clr Andrew Cooper in suggesting that councillors actually pay for their own Christmas booze-ups? (Examiner February 23).
It seems as though he wants to derail the gravy train that our hard-working representatives obviously enjoy riding on.
If the binge money didn’t come out of the hard- pressed council tax payer, it would very likely be added to our upright civil workers’ meagre expense accounts. Don’t look at the annual totals, you would cry, as I do every year thinking: “How can they manage on so little?”
The said gravy train must be endless; not only does it cater for local politicians but for national and European public figures alike.
Various delegates go to climate change meetings; the last in Bali, the next in Hawaii. But how do they get there? Not the green way by rowing boat or pedalo! No, by green airliners of course.
But I digress; I’ve just decided to be a Euro-MP if the pension will stretch. Save me a seat on that train.
Alec Dyson
Lindley
