We're all in it together

[shaunbhoy]

Snort cocaine off hookers whilst getting their permanent under-secretary to fill in their expense claims ?

ftfy

[original PM]

Snort cocaine off hookers whilst filling in their expense claims ?

really ??

think I need to re think my career options...

[hyperD]

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

Superfluous words

[doodab]

Superfluous words

This gets my vote in CUK alternative names competition.

[d000hg]

Don't they have BBC parliament in your area?

If your point is they are already, then my point about paying them more makes sense

[Doggy Styles]

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

Governing a country is fecking complicated. I doubt anyone here could hack it.

[original PM]

I fail to see how paying the current MP an extra £35k a year will suddenly mean they do a good job...

[Doggy Styles]

I fail to see how paying the current MP an extra £35k a year will suddenly mean they do a good job...

I think you miss the whole point - it won't.

The idea is to attract a better standard of executive to become MPs.

If you were a half-decent manager, which would you rather do? Earn £65,000 and get slagged off by all and sundry in the public trying to do an impossible job, or earn at least twice as much working in the relative privacy of a company boardroom?

[Uncle Albert]

Governing a country is fecking complicated. I doubt anyone here could hack it.

Which is why we have the civil service. Do you really think the MPs run the country?

[BA to the Stars]

Which is why we have the civil service. Do you really think the MPs run the country?

Until you do a public sector contract, you think that Yes Minister is a comedy show, you then realise it is a fly on the wall documentary