SIR – Like several other readers writing to the Worcester News, I was appalled by the announcement that bosses at Wychavon District Council voted to give themselves a pay rise (Worcester News, September 2). [Editor’s note: This proposal has since been defeated].
To quote a contributor to the Worcester News website, you would think that they would show some decency to take no increases – the same as most people in the private and public sectors.
Indeed, Trish Haines, chief executive of Worcestershire County Council (salary band £167,977 to £183,725), has refused to take a pay cut while insisting that county council workers do.
I was also appalled, though unsurprised, by Councillor Marcus Hart’s inability to see the difficulty that some people would have with paying for hospital parking (Worcester News, September 19).
And then there is the news that councillors have congratulated themselves over the cuts to bus services (Worcester News, September 22).
I have been referred to in the Worcester News letters pages as a “do-gooding nonentity”
with “political aspirations”, but I am regularly so enraged with what the majority of our current elected representatives are doing that I would at least like to try to bring more compassion into local government.
NEIL LAURENSON
Worcester Green Party
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