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Is this job necessary?
• AT a time when people are losing jobs thanks to the credit crunch and rampant inflation, isn’t it reassuring to know our council is happy to waste thousands of pounds of council tax-payers’ money on non-essential jobs?
Take, for example, its recent advertisement for a “community engagement officer”. For a comfortable £30,000 a year, this job will “focus on supporting community groups to work on environmental issues as well as developing relationships and coordinating a programme of events across the borough”. How pleasant for them.
In the same advert, the council is happy to trumpet the fact that it is “expanding” its “environmental sustainability jobs” department. Surely, this is not sustainable in itself? Less expanding and more contracting in the public sector would be much appreciated by a public feeling the pain of economically rocky times.
But, of course, local government is always happy to waste our money. Just don’t come to us asking for a rise in council tax. You don’t need it if you can advertise for jobs like this.
TIM NEWARK
Tax Payers’ Alliance, N5
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