“Hayden,You are incorrect,This city is what Labour have made it.It is Labour that have not invested in the infrastructure of Stoke on Trent,and ran it into the ground,It is this Labour council who have destroyed this city.If you have driven around the area you would see that the roads are disgusting, there is rubbish everwhere you go.The likes of St Modwen,who have taken millions out of this city without putting anything back in.Just drive in from the M6,j16or j15,Pray tell me,what would be your first impression of our fair city. A DUMP.
This area has 20.000 people on benefits,What does that say to prospective employers.We also have gigantic warehouses
with a few people working in them blighting the landscape.
I could go on and on Hayden,but i am boring myself,
My point is when you create vast divides in wage structures,you can not blame people for being envious,especially when they are living in a dump.”

“E.B., Stoke is Stoke it is what it is. A working class City that's thriving businesses have all but gone. They have been replaced by a variety of other industries that have seised on the high unemployment to come in and pay lower wages. So, by taking a drive round the City as you put it I will generally see what this City actually is and has actually always been - an ordinary working class place. When Wolfe was in the Mayors seat, he made numerous attempts to transform the City into a more radical and modern place to live. The resopnse to this was your usual Stokie/Sentinel attitude of 'what a waste of money'. The creation of these types of stories is to create public envy, and with the majority of the people of Stoke-on-Trent they have an extremely willing audience.”

“Hayden you prat.Take a drive around our fair city,then ask your self if any of those people are worth £150.000 plus. If this city was thriving and the services were excellent,No-one would give two hoots,As it stands we are in the bottom three councils in the country and not improving,but getting worse.Hiring people on massive salaries does not mean you have the right people for the job.look at the banking system and the massive money swilling round that trough,and how did that turn out you whalley Hayden.”

“Stoke City can afford to pay high wages because thay ROB us all in taxes.I live in a two bed room bungalow and pay the same c band tax as a house with FIVE bed rooms just across from my place.I have tryed to get it changed but like all Stoke on Trent councils thay know best and in short told me to get lost.We should sack the lot of them and start again with people who care about us not them selfs.There must be many more people like me who pay way over the odds.”

“DISGUSTING !

Makes me want to curl up and die.”

“When this article was been placed upon this site The Sentinel knows excatly what kind of response it will evoke. Public outcry, it's been the same for decades, it's forming peoples opinions of the basis of a general lacl of understanding of what it actually takes to run a city. Now, the sort of people its aiming at are those that will moan about 'paying their council tax' when a bin isn't emptied correctly, or if the Police take more than 10 seconds to appear at an incident. These individuals earning these salaries have worked hard to become Heads of Departments, it doesn't just happen over night and you will find many started at the bottom and worked their way to the top. I'm not talking about Meredith and his crew as yes I would agree that they are a waste of money and time, however the Section Heads are extremely high pressured jobs, which command a top rate salary. Look elsewhere at other councils you will see the same. People of Stoke-on-Trent love to moan, that's well known, whether its due to the nature of the City I'm not too sure and the sentinel is all to quick to help them. I for one believe in paying top notch salaries for top notch individuals.”

“It beggars belief that these kind of salaries can be paid in a deprived area such as stoke.Two and a half million pounds going to pay these greedy self serving pigs wages,
That is before their pensions,and golden handshakes have been taken into consideration,Can you imagine the vast amount of money these sharlatons are taking out of hard working peoples taxes,All these jobs should be made redundant, and readvertised at atleast half the salary they are on now,and that is generous for the work the have given this city.If they don't like it tell them to sling their hooks.”

“There is not a single job in local goverment that earns such a high salary. These high salaries are being set by council officers in order to protect their own high salaries.”

“It's a shame we can't sack the lot of these overpaid council bosses and then reoffer their jobs at £35k,I'm sure there would be plenty of takers and they couldn't do the job any worse could they?”

“Final salary pensions, expenses that seem limitless, absence taken as if it is part of annual entitlement, the public sector must be laughing their socks off at the rest of us!!”