Public sector fat cats need to go on a diet, says MEP

MEP Paul Nuttall, UKIP deputy leader

A former council chief executive’s salary which was almost three times that of the Prime Minister was “a disgrace”, says one of the region's MEPs, Paul Nuttall.

Ex-Cumbria County Council chief executive Jill Stennard earned £411,025 last year – 16 times more than the average salary for the area, according to a Daily Mail investigation.

Mrs Stennard, who retired last year, was on a salary of £170,000 topped up with £297,446 pension contributions.

On her retirement she also received a “payment upon termination of employment” of £87,500.

The Daily Mail’s report says local authority spending has been cut by 23.4% per person over the past five years while executive pay has continued to rise.

Mr Nuttall, MEP for the North West region, said: “It’s about time these public sector fat cats went on a diet.

“How can a regional administrator’s job be worth more than that of the Prime Minister? It’s madness.

“Councils up and down the country are constantly complaining they need more money, so why aren’t they looking at the salaries of their overpaid senior officers?

“Seriously, how can you demand a pensioner in Cumbria pay more in council tax while the chief pen pusher in the county is earning over £400,000?

“What an absolute disgrace that is when workers are losing their jobs and pay remains low for frontline staff.

“Executive public sector pay is out of all control in this country and it’s something we simply must get a grip upon.

“No one in the public sector should earn more than the Prime Minister who is, after all, in charge of running the entire nation.”

Greed of public sector fat cats:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3309596/The-shocking-scale-fat-cat-pay-public-sector-exposed-today-major-Daily-Mail-investigation.html