From the Essex Lib Dems website:
Essex?s ruling Conservative councillors have voted down a Lib Dem plan to save council taxpayers ?21,400.
At today?s meeting of Essex County Council, the Liberal Democrat Opposition Group proposed deleting the Special Allowance for the Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group.
Chelmsford Lib Dem Cllr. Stephen Robinson said:
This post is just not required. The Conservative Deputy Leader of the Council receives ?40,000, eight Cabinet members receive ?35,000 and the Deputy Cabinet members receive ?13,000 each. The Conservative group must recognise that they lost one third of their Councillors at the election and don?t need this extra allowance.?
The Liberal Democrat proposal was supported by Labour, Independent and Green Councillors; UKIP abstained, and the Conservative majority voted it down.
Didnot realise it paid so much. Are there expences as well?