Harriet Harman has indicated that this year may be the last that MPs get to decide their own pay rises.

The Senior Salaries Pay Board decided MPs should get a 2.8% pay rise this year whilst the British government is forcing English civil servants (but not in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland where they have their own democratic governments) to accept pay rises under 2%.

No Mandate Brown has urged his fellow MPs to show restraint and only award themselves 1.9% pay rises.

It’s very strange that MPs get to decide their own pay rises but in a way it’s a good idea.  The vote and debate will be a matter of public record so that all can see what their MP thinks they’re worth and make a judgement on whether they agree.  The Liebour propaganda unit will tell us that it’s all about being “more accountable” and “transparent” but is it really?

The job of deciding how much MPs get as a pay rise will probably stay with the Senior Salaries Pay Board but they’ll get “independence” so they can “transparently” make their decision in an “accountable” way working to a “common purpose” of what’s good for “Britain” (sorry, I’ve been reading too much government propaganda today).  If MPs don’t make the decisions any more and the Senior Salaries Pay Board decides to give them inflation-busting pay rises whilst the British government is telling hundreds of thousands of English civil servants they have to accept below-inflation, below-Scottish, below-Welsh, below-Northern Irish pay rises well, there’s not much they can do about that really is there?  This is the price we have to pay for “independence” and “accountability” in the “wider framework” of something or other and similar bullshit phrases that the One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan trots out when he knows he’s being a shit.

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