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Westminster Council to a hire new £125k a year Spin Doctor as it makes £12m cuts

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Pickles urged to intervene and stop the appointment.

Westminster City Council is advertising for a new £125,000 a year Director of Communications at the same time as it is making £12 million of cuts to services to children and the elderly and axing its entire £350,000 a year Arts and Culture programme.

Labour Councillors have called on Local Government Minister Eric Pickles to intervene to stop the appointment. Labour say that, at a time of economic austerity, there is no justification for spending £125,000 of Council Tax payers’ money on another expensive bureaucrat, especially when the Council’s £3 million a year Communications Department already employs;

* Deputy Head of Communications – £90,000
* Head of Media Relations – £82,000
* Head of Strategy – £78,000
* Head of Policy and Partnerships – £72,000
* Senior Communications Manager – £61,000

Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of the Labour Group, said;

“The Council says that it has axed its entire £350,000 Arts and Culture programme because the money was needed to pay for meals on wheels for the elderly. But now we find out that this is completely untrue and that there is £125,000 to pay for another expensive bureaucrat to supplement the already massive array of well-paid spin doctors working for the Council.

“Westminster Conservatives must think the people of Westminster are all fools if they think they can get away with this outrageous and arrogant behaviour. I urge Eric Pickles to step in and tell the Council to stop wasting Council Tax payers’ money on this unnecessary job.”


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