Privilege of parliament

The poor are being ground into the dust and now the workers are under the threat of lower wages and reduced working conditions.

Despite this, our lords and ladies of the parliamentary manor are upgrading superannuation for their new colleagues while retaining lavish payouts for the rest of them.

It is rather ironic that the origin of parliament was to cut down on privilege and then lived on their own income or on what bribes they could collect.

These days the politicians live on the fat of the taxpayer and no luxury is unaffordable, cruises on the Rhine, five-star hotels, five-star restaurants, luxury flights around the world, etc. etc.

In the old days the sinecure of the over-privileged and under-developed was the church or the army, now it is parliament.

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy