Do MPs actually need a raise at all?

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When they are limiting it frome public sector all round?

I think not.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7179170.stm

Well I'm not getting one. In common with millions of others, I should think.

"The body goes on to suggest inflation linked increases for the following two years with an additional £650 per year as a "catch-up" payment.

This is to recognise that MPs have had a series of below inflation increases since 2002."

Yes, me too - I wonder if they want to give me any catch up payments?

Again - snouts and troughs come to mind.

I just wonder how they cope on that salary. It's a pittance, really.

Yes, and that pitiful expense account that REALLY should not be public.

Twonks.

I usually argue that MP's are not as bad as they are painted (not ALL of them anyway), but this makes me despair. What are they thinking????

Why has the Review Board assumed that the relationship between MPs pay and other occupations was right BEFORE the below-inflation rises? That's what I want to know.

I reckon there were good reasons for raises below inflation and I don't think those reasons have gone away (speaking as a public sector worker)