Councils Chief Executive earns more than the Prime Minister

Ventnor Long Knives · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 31

I have seen varying reports on the Isle of Wight councils Chief Executives Salary ranging from £150,000 - 160,000 per anum yet we are informed that the Prime Minister himself earns £142,000 a year.

How can this be acceptable? The Top employee of a council which has an £11 million deficit resulting in shameful cuts the the most vulnerable members of Island society, we have failing schools as in the secondary schools league table for 2009 the Island was at 138 out of 150 local authorities for the number of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grade GCSEs, which included English and Maths. The previous year we were at 123rd in the tables, which clearly indicates we are steadily getting worse.

Little doubt we will be fed the usual line that we have to pay the equivalent to similar salaries in the private sector in order to attract the top people, but if this was the private sector we wouldn't be in this position because with a performance record like that the Chief Executive would have been removed or the organisation concerned would have found that its customers had gone elsewhere. We are the IW councils customers and we are unable to go elsewhere, short of moving off the Island, yet we are stuck with paying a failing Chief Executive heading a failing council on an island with under 200,000 people, although we are paying him more than our Prime Minister running a country of more than 60 million people. And we are unable to vote out Beynon and his cronies as we haven't even elected them.

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Wight Portal · Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 316 Location: Carisbrooke

When it comes to looking at national figures where the Island is lumped in, you can take them with a pinch of salt because they deal in percentages on populations that differ.

Take education for instance, the Island is put up against averages for the whole of the South East. Portsmouth alone has more students taking exams than the whole of the Island, so they can afford to have two or three bad schools and not affect their results, where as if we have one poor performer our figures are shot.

Interesting wage figures. This comes down to the grin and bare it mentality that has gripped the nation since ceasing civil wars in this country. Like you say if the chief executive of a major blue chip company was in the same mess the shareholders would oust them. We don't see ourselves as being shareholders to what is basically UK LTD, the Island Council is one of many departments, other local authorities, being the local divisions. We all pay in and we all moan but we still let them get away with it.

New Normal Laugh · Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 66

The statistic quoted are sound as they pertain to the percentage of pupils so differing populations are not relevant.

Beynon should never of been appointed Chief Exec. He was not up to the job when he was responsible for education, and on the basis of that they decided to promote him to CEO so its hardly a surprise that he isnt up to that challenge either.

He is not suitable, his control freak style is inappropriate and alienates the workforce so no amount of him throwing his toys out of the pram is going to cover up that he isn't qualified for the job and he should never have been appointed.

Regardless of which £160.000 would be ridiculous even if he was suitable

Ventnor Long Knives · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 31

Well the bullying comes from the Napoleon complex doesn't it?

He is overcompensating for his inadequacies and demonstrates all the classic symptoms of an inferiority complex.
If he was younger he would probably spend most of his life at the gym.

New Normal Laugh · Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 66

The occurrences of the last week must have sent a cold shiver through both the public and private sectors as to the possible consequences of their actions. Especialy the public sector as although councils are protected in most everything they do as the Local Government Ombudsman is in effect put in place to deny any chance of justice to anyone complaining to them, with such a thinly veiled total bias that it is quite frankly embarrassing that they have the nerve to carry on the charade of being any form of credible regulator http://www.ombudsmanwatch.org/ This only really leaves you with one viable option of taking legal action against councils. However firstly you are at a distinct disadvantage here with both solicitors and judges because of the Freemasons, and if you are lucky enough to survive that you are up against local authority's with bottomless pockets to employ barristers to fight you using every trick in the book, and they would be backed up in that by the LGA as the last thing they would want to see is councils losing in court actions.

With the odds so stacked against anyone holding a legitimate grievance over an injustice they have suffered due to the shady workings of local authority's the question they must all now have lingering in the back of their minds is how many people out there are just teetering on the edge like Derrick Bird was? As no matter how much the system is stacked in the favour of councils that is never going to be any protection against someone who has been harbouring a grudge suddenly losing the plot without any warning and coming to hand out the very rough justice of a crazy man looking for retribution totally on his own terms.

Isle of Wight Insider · Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Islandwide

£160,000 per annum for that poison dwarf?

Does anyone know how tall he is? I'm hoping he's a a sub five footer (:
I want to calculate how much he is costing us per inch per year as I think I can feel a new video coming on.