The price of democracy?

Today's Glasgow Evening Times, helpfully reports on the recruitment of two new "policy advisers" to help out the city's "busy" councillors at a cost of £70,000 a year.

But Mr Smith says hang on a second. Haven't all of the recently elected 1,222 councillors in Scotland, for the first time ever, been given a basic salary of £15,000 a year plus expenses, with some councillors receiving even higher salaries if they chair committees and so on, which was meant to compensate these councillors for the additional work involved in doing the job and mean they could take more time off their day job to fulfil their duties?

So Mr Smith thinks our current councillors should be getting on with the job they opted to do and not rely on "policy advisers" to give them advice which should be obvious to anyone doing the job.