Nothing personal but let’s get rid of the chief executive. So says Eric Pickles the government minister for local government. For starters he plans to make it cheaper and quicker but his ultimate goal is to get rid of the bothersome post altogether. What do they do anyway? He and his supporters in central Government think local authority chief executives have been taking the piss with inflated salaries, corporate credit cards and big pay outs to incompetent people who then reappear in another high paid post within the public sector. They have even coined a phrase for it “boomerang chief executives” because however hard you try to throw them out they keep coming back.
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