Well, first prize for disingenuity goes to David Jones MP:
"Mr Jones added: “It seems to me that MPs can’t actually win, when they are in charge of their own expenses they get pilloried, they are handed over to an independent body and they are still pilloried - and I just don’t understand why.”"
Does he really expect the electorate to believe that he's incapable of grasping the link between MPs forming the Government that has placed public Service sector wages on hold for four years, then limited them to 1% for the next four, then happily taking a huge pay hike?
Perhaps he should look at the Public Sector independent bodies that advise on wage increases. In 2014, of course, the Tory-led coalition blocked the recommendations from the independent Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists’ Remuneration (as well as other NHS pay review bodies) for a 1 per cent pay rise for all staff, on the grounds that it would be unaffordable and that many staff would receive pay increases linked to career progression.
The Parliamentary independent body was brought in after the MPs' expenses scandal - with which Mr Jones will be well acquainted, since he paid back £81,000 in profit he made on a tax-payer funded second home. But it's reasonable to ask why the government apparently heeds the MP's body, yet not the Doctors', Nurses' or Dentists'. Are MPs inherently more important than NHS staff?
