When a government deliberately refuses to listen to the voice of its people it had better be on solid ground, e.g. protecting the rights of some minority group. I shall argue here that the decision by the present government to substantially increase its own salaries is devoid of political morality or savvy.
In these circumstances, if the errant government has been long in office, the people should put its early removal high on their agenda. If it is still young, as is the present one, the people must stand their ground in the hope that the government will change its ways and come to realise that the vox populi is not to be trifled with.
Notwithstanding its quite fuzzy and extremely problematic explanations, it is clear that inherent in the decision to pay itself salary increases far above those of its employees, who, for the most part, are just inches away from the bread-line, is an abundant self-interest. (That is money I paid to one of my attorneys that works for me when I was in private practice. Why should I be working for that? SN 7/10/2015).
On this issue, those of the regime’s cheer-leaders who would have us believe that to criticise is to be unfair to a new, inexperienced, government do not now have a leg to stand on. The only whiff of inexperience has been the unnecessarily brazen statement by the
