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It is the politics of the madhouse for Tory axeman George Osborne to impose savage cuts on working Britons while MPs will each be paid an extra £962 .

Multi-millionaire Osborne, rolling in cash as beneficiary of a family trust fund, is on another planet if he agrees to the inflation-busting Westminster rise while cheating the public.

The Chancellor may want to buy the votes of Tory MPs in his bid to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister. But his promotion shouldn’t be at the cost of decency.

Because slashing the earnings of nurses, teaches, soldiers, police, firefighters, council workers and everybody else is utterly sickening when MPs are banking more.

It is another stinking case of double standards by a Conservative Government living in an alien universe. Mr Osborne played down cuts before the election then talked them up. Now he is putting the Con into Conservative, with his word a worthless junk bond.

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We can argue for ever about how much an MP is worth. But when millions of vital workers are paid much less than they are worth, the threat of heavy cuts by Mr Osborne is the divisive politics of an aloof Tory who stupidly creates the heavy backlash heading his way.

We have a suggestion for the Treasury to save money: cut useless George Osborne.