Council is spending cash on raising unemployment
Despite the success of Canary Wharf, the Docklands constituency of Poplar and Canning Town has one of the worst rates of unemployment in the country.
So you'd think that the Labour-run Tower Hamlets Council would be doing all it could to ensure that unemployment is going down not up.
And you would certainly think that taxpayers' money would not be spent on creating unemployment.
The chief executive of Tower Hamlets has been sacked by the Labour leader of the council, because apparently, his face didn't fit.
This is the same chief executive that was recruited to the CEO position only two years ago.
The difference is that the leader of the Labour group has changed since then, so now he wants his own guy to be in the top job.
The real scandal, however, it what this little spat is going to cost you and I the taxpayers.
The CEO of the council had to be given a huge payout. Then there are the legal fees and the cost of recruiting a new CEO.
By the time all that is added-up, the cost to the taxpayer will be the best part of £500,000. That's almost one per cent on your council tax bill.
Or five overcrowded families that could be rehoused, or an extra 17 police officers on the beat keeping our streets safe.
Oh and of course it's yet one more person who is now unemployed thanks to Labour.
- Tim Archer is Conservative councillor for Blackwall and Cubitt Town Ward and a prospective MP
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