Key folds on pay rises

It has been an annual ritual, Key reluctantly claiming that he can’t do anything about MP’s pay rises (which significantly outpace those of most other workers). It was never true of course:

This year, with times harder than ever for far too many Kiwis, the scrutiny that the proposed pay rise received was intense:

Key must be feeling the pressure of this, and other recent events, because he has gone populist. Vernon Small and others are covering events on Twitter.

Interesting.

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