MPs set for pay rise despite jobs misery
RICHARD Lloyd, the interim chair at The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) says he had a “statutory duty” to review
MPs pay in the first year of each parliament.
I suggest they cut MPs’ salaries instead, as it doesn’t mean Ipsa has to automatically give MPs a rise.
It was only this spring that MPs were given £10,000 each to work from home and help pay their staff, which was unfair when none of the general public who had to work from home received extra money.
MPs get more than enough extra perks, plus their salaries, and they don’t warrant or deserve a pay rise.
How inhuman can these faceless Ipsa people be and how can they be independent when the government is paying MPs’ salaries?
What about the statutory rights to give nurses and other low paid front line staff a decent pay rise who really deserve it, after all they have done and put their own lives at risk and are still doing so, during the pandemic?
I suggest if MPs are ‘forced’ to take this extra money, they donate it to the out of work, low paid and self employed who need the money far more than MPs do. Another undeserved pay rise will only make them even more unpopular with the general public. of which should have been devolved at the same time as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, perhaps after splitting England into several Swiss-style Cantons. (I know that would mean more bureaucracy, but now is the time to do it, having just freed ourselves from the arthritic bureaucracy of the EEC/EC/EU).
The only solution I can think of, so far, is to label products that totally or partly fail to meet UK standards should be labelled: “This food does not pass UK standards and is eaten at your own risk.”