Typical!

Some local authority councillors have pocketed allowance rises of almost 200% in the past year and 21,000 councillors have seen their expenses increase by 67%, House of Commons figures show.

Details of the payments come as councils are in dispute with their 1.2 million council workers after offering a rise of 3%.

GMB leader John Edmonds was scathing in his comparison between what councillors were receiving and offering.

"It is a rather sad story isn't it if, for instance, in London the average increase in allowances for councillors is 194%, nearly 200%, it has nearly trebled, and yet the offer to local authority workers is only 3%," he said.

"That still leaves an awful lot of people below the £5 an hour target figure which is appalling in the 21st Century."