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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Yes, but it's not in his gift to set the pay rates for MPs no matter how much you may despise him or want to say that he's a hypocrit. It's down to a supposidly independent committe that was set up in the wake of previous pay scandals that were perpetrated by MP's setting their own pay rates.
Don't get me wrong, I think it stinks but that's the way it is at the moment in the absence of a better method like linking MP's pay to a multiple of the average wage for example.
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Absolutely hilarious, except the jokes on us, they get punished for fraudulent expenses claims by getting a big pay rise you couldn't make it up