Cllr Julian Bell: for the many? Or self interested profiteer off the public purse?
The Labour leader of our council has 4 jobs paid out of public funds. He claims £42k p.a for leading the council. He claims another £10k p.a for chairing a transport committee with London Councils. He claims a further £14k p.a for being a board member of the Old Oak Common Regeneration Board which meets a mere 10 times a year, and often only for only half an hour. On top of all this Bell still claims a wage off MP Virendra Sharma thought to be circa £40k p.a. even though in Ealing the leader's allowance was raised to reflect a full-time role in 2006. So Total public money he bags per year so far = c£106k p.a. And as if all that is not enough from the austerity stricken public purse HE HAS A PUBLICLY SUBSIDISED HOUSING ASSOCIATION 4 BED HOUSE EVEN THOUGH HE OWNS A £1M 3 STOREY 5 BED HOUSE WHICH HE MAKES MORE MONEY OUT OF RENTING ROOMS. How can a politician who supposedly represents a socialist party get away with such a grotesque amount of public subsidy while those around him suffer deprivation, homelessness and job losses? Surely those that think Bell is a socialist are having a 'larf'?
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