… is good for the gander.
The British government has capped public sector payrises in England to 2% but the Daily Mail reports that MPs are now asking for a 10% pay increase over the next 3 years.
British MPs are paid £60,675 per year as a basic wage and then claim expenses for anything and everything. They are allowed up to £22,000 per year to pay the mortgage on a second home and they can claim up to £10,000 per year as a “communication allowance” to pay for leaflets to send to their constituents to ensure they have an unfair advantage over the opposition. For every year they are in power they get over £1,500 towards their final salary pensions. Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs are paid the same amount as English MPs even though they are only elected to do a fraction of the work of their English counterparts.
I’m sure we’d all love a 10% pay rise but down here on planet earth it rarely happens.
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If, as Brown, claims inflation is being driven by public sector pay (something not believed by anyone, not even Brown) he should ensure that an example is shown by MPs. If he can’t get them to make a sacrifice, he should personally cough up the money for our cops – something he should’ve done before Christmas – so they can at least get some bargains in the January sales…
Grunt grunt snarf oooh yummy,get those snouts in the trough,fucking pigs.