Delayed a week but through regardless on a 16 (PLP) to 13 (UBP) roll call vote, the PLP today granted themselves chunky pay raises.
Talk about accountability.
My primary complaints on this are twofold:
Firstly, pay-raises should not take force until after the next general election.
Secondly, there should not be pay-raises without associated parliamentray reform including proper transcripts, openness, committees that actually function, televised sessions etc..
There's a lot more wrong with the raises that were enacted, but it's a done deal after a lengthy debate.
Posted by Christian S. Dunleavy