FAT cat council chiefs cutting bin collections earn more than the PM.
Some with rubbish rounds only every three weeks are raking in £200,000-plus.
Chief exec Dave Perry takes home £218,000-a-year[/caption]
Sir Keir Starmer’s annual salary is £172,000.
Figures show some two million people must now wait an extra week for their bins to be emptied after Labour dropped a pledge to keep fortnightly collections.
Since Environment Secretary Steve Reed scrapped the ban last December, at least 11 Labour, Tory, Lib Dem and Green authorities have made the move or announced plans to switch.
One is South Gloucestershire where chief exec Dave Perry takes home £218,000-a-year.
The authority, which raised council tax by 4.9 per cent in March, said three-week bin rounds offer “better value for money”.
In West Berkshire, where 6,000 signed a petition against bin cuts to save £150,000 a year, its outgoing boss Nigel Lynn earned £189,294 a year.
Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke said: “Once again, you have unaccountable civil servants making decisions without knowing what type of impact it will have on local residents.
“They should spend more time speaking to the communities they are going to inflict this on.
“Many councils spend too much money on woke rubbish, and not enough on picking up actual rubbish.
“Labour should put the two-week policy back in place right now, or risk this becoming a serious health and safety problem.”
Jonathan Eida, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Residents will rightly feel short-changed, paying more for less while council chief executives are taking home pay packets bigger than the Prime Minister’s.
“At a time when frontline services are being cut back, it’s galling for taxpayers to see town hall bosses rewarded so handsomely.
“Instead of cutting core services, local authorities should be getting a grip on wasteful spending and focusing on delivering the basics.”
Fat cat council chiefs cutting bin collections earn more than the PM[/caption]
