Leicester City Council buys the site of its Richard III centre for £850,000

“Quote: "Incredible as it may seem to you, you are the short sighted one. There are vast numbers of comments on this website by right wingers, many probably from the same person operating in different disguises. They invariably make silly remarks about Leicester's Mayor and his assistants and constantly harp on about how much they get paid for their hard work.

You are obviously blind to these comments.

So it is perfectly reasonable to point out that the nearby Northamptonshire Con PCC has begun by paying four of his Con cronies the incredible sum of £65,000 a year to help him do a job he was elected to do by a mere 6% of the electorate.

Do the Leicester assistant Mayors get paid anything like £65,000 a year? Was Soulsby elected by just 6% of the electorate? If not these people should see the error of their ways and stop complaining about him.

I am sure you will agree! And if they don't, I will continue to oppose their lies and hypocrisy."


Judging by the red marks, some people don't like facing up to the truth, do they!”

“Quote: "but will not see any revenue. "

That statement will be proved completely wrong!

An informative and crowd pulling Richard III Museum will be great for everyone, financially and otherwise, both in Leicester and the County as it will tie up with the excellent Bosworth Battlefield Centre as well.

It is not just in England that there is lots of interest in King Richard III, but in America too.”

“This is MY money they are being paid! (And yours) I don;t earn that much, and i am sure most people don't! If you are living in a world as they do, in a big house, with lots of food on the table, maybe a cleaner as well, How the hell can 'they' perceive what we the people, want?

I don't give damn about a Richard 3rd building, or a visitor centre, nice, but I would rather have people of Leicester being taken care of. Yeah, tourists to the area would create revenue and jobs, but at what cost? How many millions? And how much would our council tax go up? Rest assured, we will not see any profits filter through to our council tax. We will have to pay for these buildings, but will not see any revenue.

Where is that petition?”

“Well there are already four assistant commissioners of police in Northamptonshire at £65,000 each and the Con PCC has only been there a couple of weeks. And yet he only received the support of less than 6% of the electorate! Dreadful isn't it.

The Lab assistant Mayors in Leicester are receiving less than half that of the Con assistant police commissioners.

So you must agree, that compared to the Con PCC in Northamptonshire, Leicester have a good deal. Leicester also has a Mayor who knows how to run a city. So its a very good deal for Leicester and an awful deal for Northamptonshire.

And of course Sir Peter was elected by a far higher percentage of the electorate than the measly less than 6% for the PCC.”

“Bob

No they get paid over £30k and there is an increasing number of them

Check the the number of voters (as a percentage of constituency) that voted for these worthy Deputy Assistant Mayors (never mentioned by Sir Peter until he got the job) and please report back with your findings and insight”

“Incredible as it may seem to you, you are the short sighted one. There are vast numbers of comments on this website by right wingers, many probably from the same person operating in different disguises. They invariably make silly remarks about Leicester's Mayor and his assistants and constantly harp on about how much they get paid for their hard work.

You are obviously blind to these comments.

So it is perfectly reasonable to point out that the nearby Northamptonshire Con PCC has begun by paying four of his Con cronies the incredible sum of £65,000 a year to help him do a job he was elected to do by a mere 6% of the electorate.

Do the Leicester assistant Mayors get paid anything like £65,000 a year? Was Soulsby elected by just 6% of the electorate? If not these people should see the error of their ways and stop complaining about him.

I am sure you will agree! And if they don't, I will continue to oppose their lies and hypocrisy.”

“Bob,

We get it, you are a shortsighted Labour supporter who will never see their errors but do you really need to continously make comments about how much you dislike the tory party? No i am not a tory supporter but really are you surprised that no one on the LEICESTER mercury webite makes reference to a conservative Police Commissioner in NORTHAMPTON.

This message board should be about the story and not your politicial opinion of people not in charge in Leicester.

As for purchasing the site, as much as I detest saint Pete, I think this may be a good investment. If the remains are Richard III, then brilliant a visitor centre will be worth it, if not NWC being knocked down the offices will be usefull.”

“Leicester has a good deal with its Mayor as most Leicester people realise. Sir Peter Soulsby is doing a great job for Leicester and its people.

But why hasn't even one of you Con posters criticised the new Con Northampton police commissioner for rushing headlong into appointing four of his own Con activists, one his election agent, as assistant commissioners at an incredible cost of no less than £65,000 a year each. This on top of his own £78,000 a year.

It seems like he is donating them tax payers money as a present for helping him get elected, even though he couldn't even manage 6% of the electorate voting for him.

Perhaps you know that Cons won't work for less than £60,000. But how many police constables will have to be sacked to pay for them? It's one law for the few, and quite another for the rest of us.”

“Can you imagine it?

A Polictian appoints his election agent to a well paid job

Soulsby and Palmer ring any bells Bob?”

“so if they have this amount of money to waste then there should be no problem with next years council tax as it looks if we have plenty”