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If true this is a disgrace! Shame on Nick Bourne and all Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat AMs.

You can't win with salaries can you? Leave it for MPs/AMs to set and you get low increases and the use of expenses to make up the difference. Refer it to an independent commission and you get condemned for merely accepting their recommendations.

And they wonder why politicians are held in such low repute. I suspect PC will take some benefit and Nick Bourne's hollow words will fall on deaf ears.

It sends a terrible message when inflation is on the increase in the UK as a whole, yet private sector wage inflation is holding steady at 3.5%. What the AMs lack is both political nous and human sensitivity. Do we really get value from this Assembly at all?

I would love to see an annual report from Mr Bourne and co. so that we, the taxpayers, can evaluate what they have actually achieved.

I'm not sure I agree there is increased responsibility.

Fig leaf?

Have these people no shame!

Snouts in the trough!

For the first time in 40 years I will not be voting Conservative.

I've had enough!

Well it may be that Plaid are indulging in the worst kind of political opportunism however Bourne & Co are indulging in the worst kind of pocket lining personal opportunism and that is far far worse in most people's book.

Well it may be that Plaid are indulging in the worst kind of political opportunism however Bourne & Co are indulging in the worst kind of pocket lining personal opportunism and that is far far worse in most people's book.

"The Assembly Commission's Chairman, Oxford lecturer Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth, said that the pay rise reflected an increase of responsibilities resulting from increased legislative power in Cardiff"

I presume this is a guide to all political pay deals, and in light of the Westminster MP's voting through the Lisbon treaty and resulting reduced legislative role, will we be seeing a pay cut voted through at Westminster, or is it more likely hell would freeze over before they would accept that?

Oink!Oink!


As we learnt from the demonstration at Westminster this week,pig feed has increased in price.

"The Assembly Commission's Chairman, Oxford lecturer Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth, said that the pay rise reflected an increase of responsibilities resulting from increased legislative power in Cardiff"

Ergo, the more power you accrue to the legislature, the more you get paid. Public choice theory in practice.

It's simply appalling, a devolved country relying on an "independent commission"! Well, who appointed this commission, or any other "independent body"? That would be the government, nobody else has the authority, and just how independent is a government appointed body? I suggest a "commission of state pensioners and armed forces personel" probably the two most deprived groups in the country would be independent enough!! Roll on the revolution.

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