I don't begrudge them a decent salary. They have one.
I do begrudge them telling the country "we're all in this together" and "this is a time for austerity" and then awarding themselves a big fat pay rise.
Also, its a little too close to the bone to say that there's no way to change the recommendations of an independant board when they tried to do that and fired the chairman of the AFPRB for recommending a 1/2% rise in X factor.