Good news week.

Apparently good common sense reigned last night in Skipton, when the council decided that the chief executive officer - she who had received a 37% increase in 4 short years, and was on a performance related salary - was quite well paid enough, thank you very much.
Since joining Skipton as chief executive, Gill Dixon has overseen a 23% increase in staff, and seen staff wages rocket from £5.6 Million to £7 Million in two short years, as much in wages as the total tax take from the poor suffering tax payers and the government!
Craven district council's pensions deficit went from £7 Million to £17 Million in 4 years, and Craven's assets over those same 4 years went from £51 Million to a mere £9 Million.
What is truly amazing is that some people think that records like this deserve rewarding with a 16% hike in salary, backdated some 4 months, when it's only public - OUR- money, then it seems the sky's the limit in what they can spend. Of course the recommendation to increase the salary came from the soon to be defunct 'Local Government Yorkshire and Humber' (Employers' representative one Carl Lis, leader of Craven district council) another quango which seems good at getting rid of our money.
For those interested in such parochial matters a link to how the voting went will be up and running as soon as it's released.