THE BARBADOS LABOUR PARTY should be “training their guns” on important issues such as election spending rather than the restoration of the ten per cent salary cut for MPs, a political scientist said yesterday.
Dr Don Marshall said he did not consider the pay issue a “smoking gun” or a contentious matter.
He was speaking to the SUNDAY SUN about the controversy that has erupted since it was announced in Parliament last Tuesday that the MPs’ full pay would be reinstated.
Calling the reduction a voluntary sacrifice, he said: “Lawmakers in the legislature do put a great emphasis on private property and their salary constitutes private property, and if one is going to forego one’s private property voluntarily then to pursue its restoration is again an act that is quite legitimate and appropriate.”
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