A succinct answer - and a principle with wider application
Heard on the radio a this evening during the broadcast of "Today in Parliament."
A minister in the House of Lords was asked whether the government had considered the possibility that it might encourage the re-establishment of the devolved executive for Northern Ireland at Stormont (which hasn't met for a thousand days) if members of the assembly did not get any more pay until they sat again.
The minister replied "Yes."
I suspect at least 17.4 million people might not only agree but think the principle could have a wider application.
Perhaps MPs should not get any more pay until they deliver what the electorate voted for three years ago.
A minister in the House of Lords was asked whether the government had considered the possibility that it might encourage the re-establishment of the devolved executive for Northern Ireland at Stormont (which hasn't met for a thousand days) if members of the assembly did not get any more pay until they sat again.
The minister replied "Yes."
I suspect at least 17.4 million people might not only agree but think the principle could have a wider application.
Perhaps MPs should not get any more pay until they deliver what the electorate voted for three years ago.
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