Monday 19 February 2007

Letter to Central Fife Times

Dear Sir

I couldn't agree more with Willie Clarke's letter in last week's Central Fife Times. The one off payments for councillors who retire in May this year is nothing less than a sweetener for, predominately Labour, councillors who wouldn't get re-elected anyway.
The amazing thing about this particular gravy train is that to take advantage the councillors don't even have to board the train. As of May councillors will be full time employees, drawing a wage, if they are then made redundant they are entitled to redundancy pay. At present councillors are not employees, yet, somehow they are getting redundancy pay - good work if you can get it!
I believe that career politicians are an absolute scourge and are responsible for the low turnouts at elections. This is why, when it comes to the parliamentary elections, I have pledged that if elected I'll only take the average wage of a skilled worker just as our current SSP MSPs have done for the past four years.

Yours
Lorna Bett
Scottish Socialist Party
regional list candidate for Mid Scotland & Fife