Increase in MPs` pay??

It is, of course, disgraceful that the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) should be proposing a 4.1% pay rise for all MPs (Star, 09/10/10). It`s no wonder that unions have "condemned" it, especially when "ministers refuse to negotiate a rise for public sector workers", whose efforts were so loudly applauded everywhere during the first wave of the pandemic . Admittedly, some MPs have spoken out against it, promising to refuse it and so on, but the fact that it has been contemplated highlights both the economic divisions in the country, and the lack of awareness of so many people with power. Take, for instance, the Ipsa chair, Richard Lloyd, who apparently stated that a review of MPs` salaries was needed because of "the uncertainties arising from the coronavirus pandemic", which for most people would be an obvious reason for having no such review at all. Some right-wingers actually believe the salary of MPs should be increased dramatically, in order to attract what they call a "higher calibre" of person to enter politics, but presumably they mean the sort of Oxbridge graduates who now are fast-tracked into the business and financial sectors, where they can be expected to have salaries in excess of a million, plus bonuses and share deals, annually. That is exactly the sort of person that parliament, and the country, does not need; there are too many of those there now, privately educated and profit obsessed, whose objectives for the UK have led to increased inequality and the demise of social mobility. MPs should not need the incentive of a higher salary than the one currently available; at over three times the national average, plus expenses, it is more than enough to provide a very comfortable living, and if it doesn`t satisfy them, they are clearly in the wrong job. If the incentive of having the opportunity to improve the lives of the people isn`t sufficient, it`s time to move on and leave room for people for wh