To rein in top pay, keep MPs poor and furious | Simon Jenkins

As long as politicians harbour a pay grievance against public sector colleagues, they are more likely to guard the public purse

You know how it is. You are sitting with some friends round a table on which is stashed £60m. It comes from a poll tax on television sets, free of Treasury control, and you can do with it what you like. You can use it for better television programmes, give it to low-paid staff or even return it to the taxpayer. No one will know, exce...