I WRITE regarding Haringey councillors' pay boost.
The 255 per cent pay hike for Cllr Toby Harris is disgraceful.
The 900 per cent rise for `basic' councillors' allowances is greed, pure and simple.
The increase for chair-persons seems to be a hefty 100 per cent, up to 200 per cent.
If these payment increases to councillors are a sample of the `wider scheme to shake up councils' all of us in the borough who pay their council tax will soon need bank loans to keep the `fat cat' councillors well fed.
I stood as a prospective Conservative councillor at the recent elections, and can now say that I am happy NOT to have been elected for my ward.
Now I can hold my head up with pride knowing that I am not robbing the people I sought to freely represent.
M. SPENCER (MRS),
White Hart Lane,
Wood Green.~
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