SIR – MPs who would like a 32 per cent pay rise could learn from the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, who donates about 90 per cent of his monthly salary (equivalent to £7,500) to charity.
Incidentally, the BBC reported that Mujica said at the Rio+20 summit last June: “Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.”
Neil Laurenson
Worcester Green Party
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