Plans to award MPs an 11% pay rise have been
criticised across Westminster, with one minister describing them as
"utterly incomprehensible".
Parliamentary watchdog Ipsa is set to recommend a rise of £7,600 to
£74,000, to come in after the 2015 election.
Ipsa does not need to get the agreement of Parliament to bring in the
changes.
Even before I come on to
the problem of MP’s thinking they are worthy of an 11% pay rise, which they are most definitely not, why is it the
case that Ipsa can introduce this absurd rise without Parliament’s consent?
That simply isn’t right and shouldn't have been allowed to happen.
Then we come on to the
fact that MP’s want an 11% pay rise, not the 1% rise that all other workers in
the public sector have their salaries capped at oh no this lot want that plus
an extra 10%, they’ve clearly borrowed a page out of the energy companies
playbook.
As if this proposal wasn’t
insulting enough Jack Straw decides to come out with the rather misguided,
actually I’m being too polite I meant to say moronic, comment that MP’s pay
should be increased so it is sufficient enough to attract people from modest
backgrounds, insinuating that the current basic MP’s salary of £66,396 isn’t
enough to do that.
So at the moment people
from ‘modest backgrounds’ are scoffing at the idea of going into politics
because they would only be earning two and a half times the national average
salary? Don’t think so.
There is one word to describe
this situation: WRONG!
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