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anneasquith | 07:35 Sat 10th Jun 2017 | ChatterBank
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I read yesterday that this general election cost £130 million, surely not ?
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Seems like a lot, but I expect its par for the course.
EEK... could have just tossed for it !!
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LOL @ mm. Some of our English abers may not be familiar with you're use of " tossed " :-)
EEK...threw a coin and selected heads or tails..... Hail Mary..just in case...lol
There are around 50,000 polling stations, with several polling clerks in each, getting an average of £200 each, so the sums quickly add up.

Then there are the counting staff to be paid, as well as the costs of printing ballot papers, etc. On top of that there are hire costs for any premises used which aren't schools or other publicly-funded buildings.

£130m might quite well be an accurate figure.
Peanuts though, ain't it.
// getting an average of £200 each//
really? for one day's work?

It's a long day, unsociable hours. Wouldn't surprise me.
so's being a nurse but they don't get anything like that

It's a one off task looking for volunteers.
Whether nurses are paid enough is a different issue. The PM says there's no money tree.
It was worth that just to see the look on the face of that previously smug, high handed, entitled besom.
"The PM says there's no money tree."

More lies and spin. For years there was talk of little else but money tree union.
lol Dougie !
I thought they had no truck with the unions ?
I've found someone who took the polling clerk job and all they got was £143 before tax. Unless different constituencies/councils pay more than others, the £200 seems a little optimistic.
The pay varies by area, with London councils generally paying the highest rates.

Quote:
"The London Borough of Hillingdon pays poll clerks £240, presiding officers £340, and senior presiding officers £360.

In Hammersmith & Fulham, poll clerks are paid £245.55, deputy presiding officers £296.80 and presiding officers £348.05"

Source:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/no-qualifications-needed-how-you-10386006
I guess that there is some "London Weighting" in that, but to me it looks unfair as some folk are being offered a better deal than others. I reckon there ought to be a national rate for the job.
If there was a national rate then places like London wouldn’t get any takers unless the national rate was the London rate
I enlisted to count from 9pm to 3am (3 recounts).

I counted for Brexit @ £120 gross from 9 - 2am
Yes but they would get that "London Weighting" Woofie. You know, that thing that cause London prices to be higher in the first place ?

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