STEPHEN GLOVER: No more taxes was Labour's promise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : No doubt its Assistant Director Community Services and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion will receive a whopping pension when the time comes.
47% : According to the Taxpayers' Alliance, almost £52 million of our cash was spent by local authorities on EDI roles between 2020 and 2023. Labour-run Birmingham City Council - one of the eight failed councils, which is seeking to raise council tax by 10 per cent - hired an 'Assistant Director Community Services and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' on an average salary of £103,165 in 2022.
46% : Meanwhile, Calderdale Council in West Yorkshire, also Labour, has recruited a 'Staying Well Team Manager (Agency)' - one of 40 new 'wellbeing' roles across ten councils over the three-year period at a total cost of £1.15 million. Labour-run Birmingham City Council (pictured) - one of the eight failed councils, which is seeking to raise council tax by 10 per cent - hired an 'Assistant Director Community Services and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' on an average salary of £103,165 in 2022 Hebden Bridge in Calderdale.
43% : Absurdity One example of extravagance is money lavished on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
39% : Next time you hear that your local council is closing a library, or swerve to avoid a pothole it declines to patch up, don't forget those stupendous pensions, or the vast sums wasted on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - and, I've no doubt, on countless other things.

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