OK, let's choose something nice and controversial to discuss on this week's recruitment and retention page…spondoolicks, that good old Cockney phrase symbolising the root of all evil, money. Certainly, press commentary about the 'dirty lucre' has bordered upon nigh on hysterical as local government senior managers have been pilloried by some sections of the press with headlines such as 'Fat cat, overpaid bureaucrat, tea-drinker, town hall greed…' repeatedly grabbing our attention as we've slipped inexorably into the age of austerity.
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