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Name: John Dix on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Vicki Morris on Jul 21, 2010Comments: Great, good wording; I will put this on the Barnet TUC website and on my blog. Vicki - Barnet TUC publicity officerFlag
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Name: John Burgess on Jul 21, 2010Comments: You cannot tell staff and resdients that we are 'all in this together', that we need to accept cuts to services, jobs whilst at the same time accept these huge pay rises. It is unacceptable. The decision must be reversed!Flag
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Name: Rob on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Roger Tichborne on Jul 21, 2010Comments: This troughing has got to stopFlag
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Name: Antony Howat on Jul 21, 2010Comments: Disgusting. Insensitive self serving idiots.Flag
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Name: Steve Deller on Jul 21, 2010Comments: Scrap Barnet council not just the rise in aallowancesFlag
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Name: David Sullivan on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dennis Bird on Jul 21, 2010Comments: greedy grasping corrupt dishonest totally beneath contempt who voted for these clowns?Flag
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Name: Adele Winston on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Carmody Wilson on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Roger Higginson on Jul 21, 2010Comments: This action by Barnet Counsellors is completely unacceptable. I work in central government, where a two year pay freeze has been imposed, and we face large-scale reductions in staff numbers. The Conservatives of all people should set an example. By voting themselves pay rises Barnet counsellors are holding their rate-payers in contempt.Flag
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Name: Tony Rowan-Wicks on Jul 21, 2010Comments: Time to do the right thing - as the PM himself has done.Flag
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Name: Kim Checchetto on Jul 21, 2010Comments: All that has been portrayed here is the selfishness that people feared would be the result of local Tory dominance. Surely central govt must intervene. The local issue could quite easily cause a national reaction and rift in a collaborative Conservative / Lib Dem partnership that is critically reliant on a sensitive cohesion between local and national principles. Barnet may well be betraying not just local people but its own government and national agenda.Flag
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Name: Michael Storey on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David Miller on Jul 21, 2010Comments: No money for wardens, but plenty of money for councillors. As Grant Shapps so elequently put it: "What planet are these people living on?"Flag
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Name: David Santamaria on Jul 21, 2010Comments: I think it is immoral to increase councillors' allowances in the present circumstances and so does the Conservative government, apparently.Flag
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Name: David Goldsmith on Jul 21, 2010Comments: In the context of the recent MPs' expenses scandal, this action by Barnet Conservative councillors would appear to be utterly stupid and blinkered.Flag
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Name: Austin Harney on Jul 21, 2010Comments: I am a PCS Union Representative and the Secretary of Barnet Trades Union Council. It is disgraceful that our Tory Prime Minister can say that we are all in this together for dealing with the budget deficit and at the same time, our local Tory Council can vote for a double hike in allowances for councillors. These same councillors plunged us into £27 million in the red in one of the Icelandic Banks. But instead of the councillors paying for this crisis, the lowly paid councillor workers are to take the blame by seeing their jobs, pay, terms and conditions about to be torn up. Tory Party Councillors and all their members should hang their heads in shame!Flag
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Name: Raymon Shah on Jul 21, 2010Comments: I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction at the proposed allowance increases that the councillors have awarded themselves. I sincerely hope that these people come to their senses before they are forever after remembered as nothing more than greedy pigs, lining their pockets whilst others take pay cuts or freezes (or even lose their jobs). How are we supposed to have confidence in those elected to act on our behalf when their actions are so contrary to basic common decency?Flag
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Name: L Storey on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Joyce Arram on Jul 21, 2010Comments: As the BBC interviewer commented to Cllr. Brian Coleman, what they are doing is imoral in the current economic climate.Flag
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Name: Carolyn Gyseman on Jul 21, 2010Comments: Guess that is why they were trying to cut back on the wardens to help pay them themselves more in allowances.Flag
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Name: Maria Nash on Jul 21, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Rosemary Canning on Jul 21, 2010Comments: I agree with the above comments.Flag
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Name: Rina Vergano on Jul 22, 2010Comments: Strangely these councillors are Tories. We are all going to "feel the pain" apparently, but some will feel it more than others. And some won't feel it at all, at the expense of others. Is this a little bit reminiscent of Animal Farm, where some pigs are more equal than others? The words troughs and snouts come to mind. Although mainly, words fail entirely.Flag
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Name: Matthew Winston on Jul 22, 2010Comments: It's almost funny. You can *always* trust the Tories to be disgustingly greedy.Flag
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Name: Keith Martin on Jul 22, 2010Comments: I recommend also that the councillors impose a two-year pay freeze on their allowances, in sympathy with the freeze on the pay of public service staff.Flag
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Name: Mr R Broughton on Jul 22, 2010Comments: At a time of reducing government budgets and pay freezes it seem a little crass after so short a time that the council should be awarding themselves such increases .Flag
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Name: Sophie Leighton on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew Hanton on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: John Day on Jul 22, 2010Comments: AppallingFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: John Craddock on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Cllr.a.sodha on Jul 22, 2010Comments: This pay increase should be stopped. Its just not right when people in the council are loosing their jobs and the leader and the cabinet members should award themselves this pay rise. these people are like pigs - greedy.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 22, 2010Comments: Disgraceful and Shameful! These Councillors MUST stand down.Flag
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Name: Peter White on Jul 22, 2010Comments: What did we expect? The voters have only themselves to blame!!Flag
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Name: Phil Fletcher on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: June Burton on Jul 22, 2010Comments: Barnet Council councillors should make sacrifices and should not award themselves huge increases. Unfortunately beacause there is no PR system yet the people of Barnet are not represented fairly.Flag
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Name: Peter A. Lusher on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Annika Bamfield-Gee on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Charles Lawton on Jul 22, 2010Comments: This is such a poor expample to those council workers who will bear the brunt of the cuts.Flag
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Name: Duncan Macdonald on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Donald Lyven on Jul 22, 2010Comments: But it is what Tories do, look after their own.Flag
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Name: Abigail O'Riordan on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter Greenhill on Jul 22, 2010Comments: The mind set will not be lost on the electorate I cannot think of anything other than Iceland that sticks in the mind about Barnet Council were it a Bank it would be RBS and its CEO an MPFlag
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Name: Ken Grant on Jul 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Vanessa Zimbler on Jul 22, 2010Comments: I am appalled at a time when we are all having to tighten our belts they should be leading by exampleFlag
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Name: Michael Hanley on Jul 22, 2010Comments: Stop these troughers!!!!Flag
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Name: Jan Loxley on Jul 22, 2010Comments: When the whole country is being asked to tighten belts & the axe is falling hardest on the sick, the disabled & the poor- a rise of this kind seems unjustifiable - especially as a payment to those who invested unwisely and lost so much money belonging to Barnet residents on a greed trip to Iceland! The only good thing about this is that if it goes ahead everyone will be so angry that the Tories will eventually loose control of Barnet Council as nobody will vote for them ever again.Flag