In the light of the recently imposed pay freeze on all public sector workers earning a remotely reasonable salary, it is being suggested that MPs should forego the 1% increase that has been unaccountably awarded to them by the Senior Salaries Review Body.
Forgive me for seeming naive, but aren't MPs 'public sector workers' and, accordingly, subject to the same pay freeze as all the others ? If it is deemed that they are not, is it not still the height of hypocrisy for them to even give house-room to the idea of a pay rise for themselves while so many others will receive nothing ? After all, it is MPs, as our representatives and being paid their salaries and expenses from our pockets, who have presided over the disastrous collapse of our economy in the last few years; should they not bear their share of the pain ?
Our Parliamentary representatives appear to have learnt nothing from the events of the last couple of years and seem to continue to be motivated by personal ambition and greed, and little else. Their perpetual whining about the operation of the expenses body, IPSA, while their may be some justification, is simply another manifestation of this. They do themselves no favours by these actions.
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