Take a helicopter view...

Part of the explanation why senior council wages’ have rocketed in the past decade must be the cosy deals cooked up by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (Solace), the “trade union” for senior local authority bods.

It has a wholly owned commercial subsidiary, Solace Enterprises Ltd, which dispenses eye-wateringly expensive management “consultancy” to its members’ councillor bosses. Blind eyes seem to be turned to the glaring conflicts of interests in such arrangements.

Now Hornet is not suggesting any impropriety as there is no evidence to suggest it, but you remember those transatlantic junkets the Dear Leader went to funded by you, the K&C taxpayer, it was to attend a conference connected with BT?  Well one of SOLACE's partner firms is, BT....   and the Chairman of Solace is our very own RBKC Chief Executive...

Hornet is investigating...