NICE to see the public sector gravy train alive and well in Wirral with the council handing over £1,700 a day for two consultants.

These advisers are ex-council workers from other boroughs.

Exactly what do we pay our top councillors five-figure salaries for if they don’t know what they’re doing - or do they travel to other areas and charge them for their advice?

P Farragher by e-mail.