http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/...name_page.html
"Interesting" comments in the Birmingham Post, following up on Jacqui Smith's visit to Wolverhampton mentioned by volrider .....
.... Particularly the bit about the local Police authority who are responsible for paying their Officers, stating that they have the money to implement the award in full from the due date, they want to do this, and urge the Home Secretary to agree with the arbitration ruling.
... and there's a bit of a revolt going on in-house too :
A number of Labour MPs have called for the police to receive the pay rise and signed a House of Commons motion calling on the Government to reconsider.
They include, from the West Midlands, Richard Burden (Lab Birmingham Northfield), Lynne Jones (Lab Birmingham Selly Oak), John Spellar (Lab Warley), Jim Cunningham (Lab Coventry South), Brian Jenkins (Lab Tamworth), Janet Dean (Lab Burton), Paul Farrelly (Lab Newcastle-under-Lyme) and Charlotte Atkins (Lab Staffordshire Moorlands).
