Despite their protests, British MPs get 10 percent pay rise

British lawmakers were handed a 10 percent pay rise on Thursday despite their protestations, and with many promising to give away the extra cash to avert anger from other public sector workers, whose wage increases have been capped. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), set up to remove decisions about lawmakers' pay from political interference, said the salary of Britain's 650 elected Members of Parliament (MPs) would rise to 74,000 pounds. "It is right that w