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Echo’s influential reporter Geoff Percival has a pretty damning article in tonight’s Echo. He warns that the increased payments to cabinet councillors may lead to the District Council being merged with Southend, simply to save costs.<\/p>\n

We don’t like to say “We told you so” but this is exactly what Chris Black said at Full Council when the item was debated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nGeoff is understating things when he says that several Tory councillors abstained. 17 Conservative councillors voted for this. 16 of them didn’t – they either abstained at the meeting or didn’t turn up at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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