George Osborne - "None will earn more than the PM’s £190,000-a-year"

[NotAllThere]

In real terms, the savings are tiny. But it makes the chavs and the self-righteous feel better.

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Teachers: Most of the people who dropped out of engineering with an ordinary and were refused entry to the honours went into teaching and now earn more than the people with firsts.

[Moscow Mule]

Teachers: Most of the people who dropped out of engineering with an ordinary and were refused entry to the honours went into teaching and now earn more than the people with firsts.

Teaching? Or managing?

My Mrs is Head of PE - worth a mere £40k pa. You couldn't get me to do her job for triple that.

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Teaching? Or managing?

My Mrs is Head of PE - worth a mere £40k pa. You couldn't get me to do her job for triple that.

Well I am sure the country respects our youth star jumping for 2 hours a week. Must be hard to say "can we all do star jumps now"

[MrMark]

I'm very dubious about having a "maximum wage". So long as they're paying the correct top rate tax, I'm quite happy for people with the right skills to command high remuneration. I've not yet totally given up the chance of this myself!
However, what I would like to see is local councils or authorities given more responsibility (and power) over their budget. They should be given the option of raising money in other ways, perhaps by putting them in charge of stamp duty rates in their area. However, and this is important, the right to vote in council elections should be limited to those who pay council tax. No representation without taxation! Otherwise you get the current situation where those who don't contribute vote in a council that pushes up tax year on year by more than the rate of inflation.

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No representation without taxation! Otherwise you get the current situation where those who don't contribute vote in a council that pushes up tax year on year by more than the rate of inflation.

Welcome to Glasgow!!

The council, a couple of weeks ago, decided to up the minimum wage for council workers. all well and good but not when the country is bust.

The SNP are trying to push through a 3% income tax in place of the council tax, the Libs want it to be variable between councils which will happen as they need them to get the vote passed. I am very seriously considering moving to Engerland when this happens.