THE dispute over Eastbourne MP Carole Ansell accepting her £7k pay rise rumbles on today.

Nigel Jones, who stood for UKIP in May's general election, has attcked both Caroline and former LibDem MP Stephen Lloyd.

He said, 'I was very interested in your item on the outrageous £7K MPs' pay rise in the current EI.

'As UKIP's  Parliamentary candidate for Eastbourne in May's General Election I attended an election hustings at King's Church, Hampden Park at which I publicly promised  before hundreds of people that if elected I would give 10 %  of my Parliamentary salary including this rise to local charities such as food banks and our hospital - and challenged my fellow candidates, including Caroline Ansell and Stephen Lloyd, to follow suit. None did so.

'Allow me, therefore, to take Mr Lloyd's declaration  to you that if he were still an MP he would have given the money to deserving causes with a very large pinch of salt. So easy to say that now Eastbourne has booted him out!

'And why didn't Ms Ansell not use that opportunity to similarly pledge this disgraceful pay hike to the people of Eastbourne she is supposed to serve?

'With behaviour like this it is small wonder that the politicians of our three  Establishment parties are seen by the public as greedy snouts-in-the-trough chancers serving themselves first and foremost and the public last.'