Stoke City Council are committed to transparency will disclose whether council elders earn more than the threshold for the top level of income tax, says council spokesman Phil Collins.
The city council has faced widespread criticism for giving themselves pay rises while the 50p tax rate was cut and while regular Stokies have been hit hard with the so-called “pasty tax” on the sale of the hot baked goods, a staple food in Stoke.
Collins says: “We are not in a daily popularity contest but Stoke is in a daily business contest with the rest of the world. I think the council is helping Stoke to win that contest.”
Collins insists that council elders and he are “in touch” with ordinary people and claims that accusations they live in a “different world” are simply “the usual charge from the usual lefty-commie bastards”.
Collins says: “The council elders have been at the forefront of transparency, we are far more transparent about the way councils operate. Just the other day we published figures showing how much is spent annually on hog roasts. Do you think any cockney coumcils would do that? Didn't think so."
Mr Collins refuses to clarify the current status of his own tax affairs, but says he's "so rich I'm shitting cash".
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