All very good points from MA (when doesn't this guy make such excellent input?!) and there is certainly room for reform that will help those at the lower ends of the earning scales... though it will only drive demand and rates for your accountants even more, so quids in for that profession.
Andy's point regarding DCFC's predicament, "The money wasn’t ‘found’, that’s a partisan spin on things, it was borrowed for non-recurring events at commercial rates and will be paid back by our descendants. Using the same device for ‘ongoing business’ (such as permanent pay rises) is exactly the type of behaviour that’s got The Rams in the ****", is right on the money, pun intended! Decisions like that would have been lead, or at the very least, sanctioned by the man at the top. So either Mel drove these decisions, or wasn't as clever a businessman as so many claimed, and simply said "yes".