Well, it's a start!

• Guest 693

  • Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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  13 May 2010     14:1951670
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  Announced today, the new Cabinet will be taking a 5% pay cut; as the title suggests, it's a start, and I applaud the new Prime Minister for implementing a policy that will not make a huge difference to the national debt, but does at least set an example. Not that the members of the new Cabinet will notice anyway, since none of them were on a ministerial salary until yesterday!
  
  I suspect that 'pay cut' is a phrase we'll all be hearing plenty of in the months to come, and to cut ministerial pay before any of the new ministers will have felt the impact is a clever move by David Cameron, very astute.
  True friends stab you in the front.
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  13 May 2010     15:1751688
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  So long as they don`t have a pay rise later Andy, backdated to 13 May 2010. I can`t believe I`ve just made a comment on a political post.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 655

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  13 May 2010     15:2151690
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  Andy - Colin, it was not just a pay cut it was frozen for 5 years as well.