Thursday 30 August 2007

Blank cheque.


So, Mr Smith notes that the Chief Executive of East Lothian Council, John Lindsay (pictured), has been forced to resign from his role without the golden goodbye of £150,000 which he had negotiated for himself before May's council elections.

Thankfully justice has been done, but it makes Mr Smith wonder whether this would have been the outcome if it hadn't been for the press and media scrutiny of the "deal" at the time and the fact that the voters of East Lothian used the elections themselves to change the political makeup of the council by dumping a Labour administration which had acquiesced in the transaction.

But before anyone sheds any tears for Mr Linday, he still walks away with a £200,000 package, including an annual package of £55,000. Perhaps, its time for the spotlight to shine on the conduct of the councillors who were involved in the deal before May?

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