Like pigs filling their own troughs, the overpaid and underworked Members of the Stormont Assembly on the hill are spending your money to benefit themselves and their staff.

Not long after their three year holiday, they have decided to raise their expenses for running a constituency office from £4,900 to a whopping £7,000.

Their staff will also benefit from pay rises:

· Grade 1 staff currently £18,000 rising to £23,490,

· Grade 2 staff currently £19,750 rising to £29,400

· Grade 3 staff currently £22,750 rising to £36,100

And, of course, all of this backdated to 1st April, yes April fool's day, but sadly this is no joke.

Just to ice the cake, they will also give themselves time to enjoy their extra money as they will have an additional eight days holiday a year - and if they go off on the sick, they get six months full pay followed by six months half pay.

Is this the way you want your hard-earned money spent, especially at this time when so many are losing jobs and having wage cuts?

Only UKIP is calling for an end to this farce and the closing of the Assembly.