Good evening @Malcolm_Offord @ThomasKerrMSP Scotland’s politicians and top council bosses are doing just fine while the country isn’t.🙄 Median full-time pay in Scotland is around £40,000. An MSP takes home roughly £75,000–£78,000. The elected council leaders in Glasgow and Edinburgh are on about £71,500–£74,000. Ministers and the First Minister are on substantially more. That’s already roughly twice what most working Scots earn, with strong pensions, expenses and job security on top. Then there’s the unelected senior officers. Glasgow’s former chief executive Annemarie O’Donnell was on a salary of around £209,000, and walked away with a total package reported at over £567,000 once a large pension contribution was included. Current chief executives in the big cities are still in the £200,000+ range. Meanwhile ordinary people face council tax rises of 4–10%, councils report hundreds of millions in budget gaps, services are under pressure, and Scotland still has Europe’s worst drug death rate. The people at the top , both the politicians and the highest-paid officers keep receiving well above average pay and appear largely insulated from the consequences. They feel secure. A lot of Scots don’t. When does that change?

Why are the SNP allowed to lie in our parliament??