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20/02/2008
MPs Shouldn't Set Own Salary: Empey
A local political leader has appealed to the Prime Minister to end the practice of MPs and MLAs' salaries being agreed by the politicians themselves.
Also referring to Welsh and Scottish Assembly Members and Westminster MPs too, Ulster Unionist Party Leader, Sir Reg Empey said this practice leaves a lot to be desired.
In a letter to 10 Downing Street, the UUP man said: "I find it difficult to believe that we continue year in year out with a system that subjects public representatives to ridicule and derision from the press and public alike.
"This," he wrote, "is due to the anomaly that we are responsible for setting our own rates of pay, at the same time as we are setting the rates of pay for large numbers of public sector workers."
Pressing further on the poor public relations outcome of all the UK's politicians being able to set their own wages, Mr Empey wrote: "I have no doubt that other party leaders share similar concerns and I am copying this letter to them with a view to seeing if a consensus can be reached on urgently needed and far reaching reforms."
(BMcC)
Also referring to Welsh and Scottish Assembly Members and Westminster MPs too, Ulster Unionist Party Leader, Sir Reg Empey said this practice leaves a lot to be desired.
In a letter to 10 Downing Street, the UUP man said: "I find it difficult to believe that we continue year in year out with a system that subjects public representatives to ridicule and derision from the press and public alike.
"This," he wrote, "is due to the anomaly that we are responsible for setting our own rates of pay, at the same time as we are setting the rates of pay for large numbers of public sector workers."
Pressing further on the poor public relations outcome of all the UK's politicians being able to set their own wages, Mr Empey wrote: "I have no doubt that other party leaders share similar concerns and I am copying this letter to them with a view to seeing if a consensus can be reached on urgently needed and far reaching reforms."
(BMcC)
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