POLLING DAY PAY DAY FOR LABOUR EX-MINISTERS

POLLING DAY PAY DAY FOR LABOUR EX-MINISTERS

GOLDEN GOODBYES ARE LABOUR’S FINAL INSULT

A parliamentary question to the UK Cabinet Office has revealed outgoing Labour Ministers received over £1m in pay offs after losing at the General Election.

In a written answer to SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire Pete Wishart, Cabinet Minister Francis Maude revealed that outgoing Labour ministers received a total of £1,051,202 in severance pay. Mr Wishart challenged Scottish Labour MPs, who were Ministers in the last government, to reveal how much they had received.

Commenting, Mr Wishart said:

“At a time when workers across the public sector are paying the price of Labour’s mismanagement of the economy, these golden goodbyes are the final insult.

“Voters kicked Labour out of office, and these payments are essentially a reward for failure. May 6th was a polling day pay day for Labour Ministers – collecting hefty pay outs as they headed straight to the opposition benches.

“In these uncertain times, as job cuts loom across the public sector, it will not sit well with many that ex-ministers were feathering their nests.”

Mr Wishart added:

“In the interests of transparency, those Scottish Labour MPs who took this reward should say how much they have received.”