Déjà vu?

Back in the 1980s the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, ordered an independent review into MPs pay.  To her horror, the review concluded that MPs were woefully underpaid and should get an immediate payrise of massive proportions. Realising there was no way this could be sold to the country, she and the Chancellor decided that MPs should get a small payrise, but they should be given a generous expenses system and be advised to take full advantage of it. Thus were the seeds of the "expenses scandal" sown.  And now?  The question of MP's pay has been put into the hands of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, who it is rumoured are about to say that they should get a £10,000 increase.  So here we go again??