With the current farrago over public sector pay the government picked a perfect moment to give the Lord Chancellor a 12.9% pay rise. Whilst it would seem 3% is about all teachers seem to be worth the Lord Chancellor, whose taste in top quality wallpaper is well documented, is up for an increase greater than some teachers annual take home. I’m not sure what planet this logic comes from but it’s certainly not earth. If the government is serious about pay restraint, Gordon Brown speaks of little else at the moment, they have to realise that to have any credibility pay restraint in the public sector means all public employees playing by the same rules…even politicians.