Re: Missing the point
MPs would only create such rules if they didn't apply to them (in much the same way as they exempted themselves from the public sector pay freeze). You're never going to get this to stick to them, so you can take that particular straw man right off the table.
The original poster was talking about applying this to all government employees. Most civil service workers don't get paid £74kpa and their pension arrangements are no longer particularly generous compared with the private sector, so you can shelve your moral outrage (a.k.a. envy) about pay rates. If you did try to pull this stunt on the encumbents by changing their T's and C's they'd be looking to be compensated handsomely, and if you tried to pull it on new recruits only you'd very quickly find yourself having to significantly raise pay rates or offer other sweeteners to attract anyone even vaguely employable.
In reality what would happen is that all civil service jobs would end up outsourced to private companies, so that the individuals doing those jobs weren't subject to the new "government employee" anti-corruption rules. Outsourcing of public sector work is already happening anyway (mostly starting with IT staff), so it would really only be an acceleration of the trend. You'd end up with very few people subject to the new rules, as the civil service would have been reduced to a skeleton staff solely maintaining the outsourcing contracts, but whom have practically zero employability elsewhere - hence sky high pay rates and/or severance packages would end up being applied.
You might be OK with outsourcing, but I think it just adds extra middle men taking a cut of the bulk of the civil service payroll whilst looking to cut corners on service provision anywhere where the contract fails to offer robust enough penalties for doing so. And the staff generally no longer care about the service part of the civil service as long as they're ticking the boxes asked for by their new employer.
Anonymous, for obvious reasons.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
