Truly, nobody actually gives a ****.
Its true, outside in civvy street no-one actually gives a **** what service people are paid. Don't like that? Then leave. Nobody forces you in.
All this babbling on about MP's pay as well, nothing to do with it.
Good NHS workers are at the top of the pay tree, because its a political hot potato and MPs don't want to upset the mug punter electorate about bad news at the hospital or doctors.
Teachers are on strong money because they have a damn good trade union and the muscle to flex, always have had.
Servicemen moaning about money does absolutely nothing to intimidate their paymasters.
* Even when I was in, I was incredulous that people would moan on and on about the trades union movement. A lot of ignorance within the Armed Forces about Britain's political history.