Former Conservative AM Glyn Davies thinks the only reason that can be given for the pay rise/change in pay differential for AMs announced last week is that the Assembly now has law-making powers, albeit it in a limited form. "I could not believe what my ears were telling me when I heard talk of AMs 'working harder' - a phrase which could not be better designed to inflame public sector workers and almost everyone else who is also 'working harder'," he writes.
Alas! His advice is too late for Caerphilly AM Jeff Cuthbert who, in a feature in tomorrow's Wales on Sunday, comes up with another explanation for why AMs deserve more pay.
"On the constituency front, AMs are more and more getting into the psyche of people’s minds, which MPs have done for years, and the workload has increased significantly," he says.
Right you are, then.