PAY SCALE SO WRONG

I recently saw a photograph of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick and Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey wearing more medals than the heroes who returned after several tours of duty of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I also witnessed last week’s re-election theatrics of Commons’ Speaker John Bercow.

Isn’t it about time that the so-called ruling elite stopped all the pomp and ceremony and got down to looking after the citizens of this country?

They earn wages far in excess of our nurses, police officers, firefighters and soldiers – but on performance, they’re just not worth it. Eddie Fidler, Oxford