MPs’ PAY: “Please sir, please sir, sir, sir…I want the increase much less than he does sir”.

Who hates the 11% MPs’ pay increase most? Is it David Cameron or Ed Miliband. Let battle commence.

Cammers: “”First, the idea of an 11% pay rise in one year at a time of pay restraint is simply unacceptable. Secondly, Ipsa do need to think again, and unless they do so, I don’t think anyone will want to rule anything out. No one wants to go back to MPs voting on their own pay but we have got to have a process and an outcome that can build public confidence. Third, in my view, I think this should all be accompanied with a cut in the cost of politics.”

Millers: “People are going through the biggest cost of living crisis in a generation. Waiting and seeing won’t work.The public expect us to resolve this now and not wait until 2015. It only undermines confidence and trust in our political system if the uncertainty about MPs’ pay is allowed to continue. I believe the three party leaders should meet Sir Ian Kennedy to make clear our view that we cannot go ahead with the current proposition.”

I say, good show chaps.

Except that, um, we need to go back to why Sir Ian Kennedy is in charge of MPs’ salaries. He is that much-overused term – like Tsar, Spin Doctor and Watchdog – required because our legislators have no idea how to behave.

The two unutterable plonkers Cameron and Miliband are the leaders of their Parties. If they can’t control the behaviour of their own followers, why should any of us think they can control events?