Last Straw

Douglas Hogg — the Brit­ish Tory MP who included the cost of clean­ing his moat on his expenses—reck­ons:

A par­lia­ment­ary salary does not sup­port the life­style to which most pro­fes­sional and busi­ness classes aspire.

Which got me won­der­ing as to which char­ac­ter Hogg most resembles in Animal Farm. My money’s on Pin­keye.

He car­ries on to suggest:

The salary of MPs is now so low in both abso­lute and rel­at­ive terms as to deter mem­bers of pro­fes­sional and busi­ness classes from enter­ing Parliament.

Sounds per­fect. Maybe MPs salar­ies should be lowered?

But ser­i­ously, my favour­ite, link the National Min­imum Wage to MPs wages in some way.