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Financial Incentives for Councillors to use bikes.

....at the expense of council tax payers no doubt.Is this for real?A bit like the Councillor some years back who insisted that a CPZ was important to help people understand that don't need cars.She then left the meeting as she had to attend another one.Leaving by car.When challenged she said "I have to have a car otherwise I would never be able to do my important work."Total double standards but the fact is whose work is not important?  Unpaid volunteers? or those scraping by trying to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads?I hope all these roughing councillors will be having their subsidised machines tracked so as to prove their legitimate use in the interests of transparency.  Most I know claim taxis as they are too inebriated to drive after the customary post meeting neck oiling.

Raymond Havelock ● 1281d4 Comments

Won't identify this councillor but she was in many ways a very ordinary lady. And is no longer with us. My parents knew her very well.But very much consumed by the culture of double standards and above everyone else arrogance that seems to come with politics.

Raymond Havelock ● 1281d

Just about sums up all their members actually, so impossible to identify just one....... Local Ealing Council Labour, you can TRUST 'em!    🤣

Rosco White ● 1281d

Raymond, was the Councillor in question, one of those disingenuous virtue signalling moralists, that you seem to get more often from the Labour Party?

Anthony Hawran ● 1281d

Sheer greed. I thought that the 20 pence per mile allowance was the standard HMRC amount for employees using their bikes for business. It is not payable for commuting,as 3xample, to council meetings. AFAIK. Councillors are not employees they already claim allowances of almost £1,000 per month each as a minimum, some significantly more. As I said, sheer greed.

N V Brooks ● 1281d