When 'Baz' Quirk (as he was sneeringly known in his Lewisham days) rambles on about Council tax having to rise to pay for 'services' think of another reason.
A report just published comes up with the terrifying figure of £2.2 trillion to fund final salary linked pensions Baz and tens of thousands of his ilk benefit from.
In the private sector, you can forget that sort of deal: such vulgarly extravagant pension schemes were abandoned years ago.
Quirk costs local taxpayers a little short of £300,000 a year. When he retires he will collect £120-135k a year.
A myth pushed out is these outrageous amounts are needed to attract and retain top people.
The reality is that the private sector would have no interest in whatever skills Doc Quirk claims to have.
The Public Sector has fixed the pensions system to its own outrageous advantage and we pay the price in the taxes we pay.
There are tens of thousands of Barry Quirk types sponging off gullible taxpayers
ReplyDeleteThe Chancellor faces a huge funding gap as a result of £400billion of COVID spending and the £1.4trillion that Boris wants to spend to go "Carbon Neutral". Luxuries and out of step bungs like inflation proof pensions for the Quirks are not long for this life.
DeleteLocal authority 'entrepreneurs' like Quirk have conned people into thinking they have some special management abilities critical to local government. They write papers to get doctorates as part of the puffing process. They are intellectual conmen
ReplyDeleteThe salaries of the likes of Barry Quirk should all be at least halved.Unlike executives in the private sector who first have to raise money before spending it Barry Quirk and his team only do the easy part namely spending other peoples money provided by the ever “generous" taxpayer.Spending other peoples money is so easy that it gives rise to unnecessary and uncalled for projects that can be financed by this wonderful “Money Tree"
ReplyDeleteWith the RBKC budget forecast to be £650million the Barry Quirk’s of this world would not have a clue how to raise this amount.
However I am pleased to report that RBKC has lost its “Gold Medal” for useless and needless projects to Westminster Council with its £6.7million tasteless mound the original budget being a mere £2million!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/23/not-pretty-marble-arch-mound-draws-crowds-keen-to-see-how-bad-it-is
"It’s clear that struggling families in Westminster are set up for failure because the council would rather spend £6.7 million on a tasteless mound than invest in communities to better their living standards and flourish.” Sound familiar!
However don’t hold your breath. Quirk and his team will I am sure soon be back to out do Westminster Council and regain their Crown!
Even £2million was outrageous
DeleteThe likes of Mr Quirk have laboured to give the impression the management of a local council is so beset with complexities a special sort of expertise is required. To confound us simple taxpayers they talk in a language only accessible to their fellows. Such nonsense. Running a council, especially one as small as K&C, is neither arduous or complex: in fact, one wonders why a CE is needed when one has competent directors of the various statutory services.
ReplyDeleteMr Quirk in his own tweets
ReplyDeleteLondon public manager. Collecting a bouquet of other people's flowers, only the ribbon that ties them is my own.
Aug 8 2021
One of my sons said, after hearing conversations in my car, that he finally realised that my job is just a complicated version of events management. Not sure he’s far wrong!
@BarryQuirk1
Jan 1 2021
Baggy trousers ... oh what fun we had .
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That's why he's so overweight and unhealthy looking
ReplyDeleteGuardian article 2005
ReplyDeleteEfficiency Tsar/Champion 2005
.........Barry Quirk doesn't like being called an efficiency tsar. "Tsars are beheaded or poisoned", he quips. But the man charged with helping councils deliver the targets set in the Gershon efficiency review will settle for efficiency champion instead.
The Lewisham council chief has been working on the local government efficiency plan since his appointment was announced in the chancellor's spending review last July. It followed a key recommendation made by Sir Peter Gershon in his efficiency review of government spending that councils, along with the rest of the public sector, should find 2.5% worth of savings over three years.
Sat in a plush office upholstered in soft browns and orange on the fourth floor of the town hall in Catford, the man who has run Lewisham local authority for the past 11 years is sanguine about councils' ability to meet the target.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/apr/29/localgovernment.uk