We're all in it together

[Mich the Tester]

£65k is a pretty lousy salary to run the country.

How much would you have paid Gordon on 'performance related pay'?

[doodab]

£65k is a pretty lousy salary to ruin the country.

[d000hg]

Anyone fancy starting a yougov petition to get them to work for pennies and give up their final salary pensions? I don't imagine it will struggle for signatures...

MPs shouldn't be paid at all. Perhaps that way we might have some decisions based upon integrity rather than the plethora of self-serving abortion that has caused misery to millions while enriched the few.

So the only people who would want to do it are independently wealthy upper-class snobs?

MPs are cheap, it's their decisions that are expensive.

HTH

WHS. A few £million is nothing. Put 'em on £100k and bring in decent 360 reviews

[LatteLiberal]

£65k is a pretty lousy salary to run the country.

Does the PM and the cabinet not get more?

[d000hg]

Does the PM and the cabinet not get more?

The PM is on ~double that IIRC?

[BA to the Stars]

So the only people who would want to do it are independently wealthy upper-class snobs?

WHS. A few £million is nothing. Put 'em on £100k and bring in decent 360 reviews

WDS - It is quality that is required. Most of our companies probably earn more than an MP.

[amcdonald]

Well I think that's the way it is headed, but the point I was trying to make was they are stripping down public workers pensions, so maybe they should understand, at the end of the day, that's all they are: public sector workers, civil servants and they should be subject to the same rules.

One thing that has always, always got my goat about MP's, is that they are allowed to operate to different tax rules, per se, than the rest of us, like they're special. An example would be not needing to show an invoice for anything under £25, about, prior to this, being able to expense from their 'corporation' expenses to fund a second house. Where as normal business people, who have to move about the country would be thrown in jail if they tried the same tricks...

If they lived by the same tax laws as us, we wouldn't get stuck with so many stupid laws

[original PM]

you see back in the day your average MP was someone who had been a pillar of the community for other reasons and they were a natural choice to represent that community on the house of commons.

Now however they are self serving back stabbing little sh!ts who have no interest in their local constituents and are solely in it to earn money

Having said all that does anyone know what an MP actually does?

[amcdonald]

Having said all that does anyone know what an MP actually does?

Snort cocaine off hookers whilst filling in their expense claims ?

[doodab]

So the only people who would want to do it are independently wealthy upper-class snobs?

Don't they have BBC parliament in your area?