Members who ducked debating their own pay are practising a strange form of accountability

It’s hard, it’s uncompromising, and politicians spend their entire careers trying not to think about it.

This is a serious cover-up on an Islandwide scale: you just don’t write about it, you don’t talk about it and you don’t even think about it – let alone reveal it to anyone.

And this is it: no one really gives a monkey’s about local politics.

• Read the full column in Tuesday’s Jersey Evening Post