Monday, 1 July 2013

David Cameron ‘warned that he can’t stop pay rise for MPs’

David Cameron has been warned he will not be able to block plans for a big pay rise for MPs.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is expected to say backbench MPs’ £66,000 salaries should increase to more than £70,000 from the election.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said such a plan would be “unthinkable”.

Well this is comforting news isn’t it, MP’s want to give themselves a pay rise of about 15% taking their salary to around £75,000 a year, and the Prime Minister can do nothing about it, the system works.

Is it just me or do politicians deliberately try and make themselves unpopular, because they’ve announced they should all be paid more less than a week after the spending review when George Osborne announced that millions of public sector workers will lose automatic annual pay rises, and those that don’t will see their increase held at 1%. 

Now last time I checked MPs’ are public sector workers so they should follow the guidelines set by the government, which they will have all agreed and had a say on, and be grateful that they already earn two and a half times the average UK wage of £26,500. 

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