SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
Press Release: 29/08/05
SSP national convenor Colin Fox MSP today responded to surveys on private and public sector executive pay with a call for the government to reverse Tory tax cuts
Colin said:
“Private sector Chief Executives may have dropped to third place behind the US and Germany in the international pay leagues, but we won't be organising a whip round for them just yet.
“An AVERAGE salary of over half a million pounds a year is both ludicrous and obscene.
“Public sector bosses have their snouts in the trough as well - £2 million a year for Adam Crozier at Royal Mail, while the chief of Network Rail gets £1 million.
“With hundreds of thousands of Scots living on the breadline or toiling for a minimum wage, the greed of these people is sickening.
“We call for a reversal of the cuts to top rate taxation implemented by the Tories in the 1980s.
“Greed is not good - it's time the fat cats paid their share.”
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