Today I read that the City of Stoke-on-Trent is looking for a new Chief Executive to head the team of bureaucrats that run the place. This "challenging role" apparently requires someone with "a healthy sense of perspective." Such a healthy sense of perspective, in fact, that they are prepared to pay £195,000 per annum for the right man or woman to fill this post - which is about £50,000 more than they paid the previous holder of this office. Why has it gone up so much? Why in the name of God, can they even be allowed to offer a salary which is £10,000 more than that paid to the Prime Minister? It seems that even this nonsensical salary is by no means the highest in the land. That honour goes to the London Borough of Newham who pay £240,000 - or, at least, that's what everyone believes. I suppose it is possible that it may be even higher in the mad-cap world in which we live in these days.
Is Stoke a difficult place to run? Is it in a particular mess? The Job advert tells all applicants that they will have to "turn us around"? What can they mean?
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