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The scandal hit in 2009Someone mentioned the parliamentary expenses thing. It's worth remembering how that started out - they thought it looked bad politically to have a pay rise, put it off several times, the money started to fall dramatically behind comparable private sector or indeed civil service jobs, and the political parties and the parly administration gave them a nod-and-a-wink to make it up on the exes.
Of course - of course! - some of them took this as a green light to drink the pub dry.
Most importantly, it was the kind of mates' rates arrangement that always looks terrible in the light of outside scrutiny. Whatever fuss there would have been in the papers about a straightforward pay rise, it would have been nothing compared to the wholesale clusterfuck that broke out.
Between 1999 (£4700 and 2009 (£64,766) is a big increase for Basic wage
It was only after 2009 the increases slowed down
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