NICE work, says John Blunt (LET, September 17), talking about former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke landing a plum £120,000 a year boardroom job.
He refers to this job of two days a week as earning "a bit of beer money".
On the same page, however, he says if you are a government minister, you should refuse the 22 per cent increase - worth £20,000 extra - in the pipeline next year.
Of course, it may ill behove a government to oversee such a public sector pay squeeze of three per cent, while displaying no such restraint itself.
But I do find John Blunt's hypocrisy to be most amusing.
J P VERNON, Accrington Road, Blackburn.
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