An End to Austerity

[tractor]

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No doubt my FaceBook wall will shortly be full of claptrap about "Tories give MPs 10% pay rise while nurses get 1%" from my left-wing friends, who conveniently forget the facts that most (it seems) MPs have been campaigning NOT to get this pay-rise.

They were always going to get the rise so it costs them nothing to protest with a wry grin.

[DodgyAgent]

To many of my friends, I am their right-wing friend.

Just the candidate for a suicide bomber

[DodgyAgent]

No, you would not.

I am appalled at how little these people are paid considering how important their responsibilities are. all we seem to get are people who are used to low pay who want to impose it on everyone else.

[NickFitz]

No doubt my FaceBook wall will shortly be full of claptrap about "Tories give MPs 10% pay rise while nurses get 1%" from my left-wing friends, who conveniently forget the facts that most (it seems) MPs have been campaigning NOT to get this pay-rise.

And yet, despite their campaign, they still get it. Oh, the humanity!

[AtW]

Here's an unpopular thought, maybe we should start paying them decent money and we could get some decent politicians.

No, you would not.

[DimPrawn]

£74k?

Here's an unpopular thought, maybe we should start paying them decent money and we could get some decent politicians.

Have you seen the pensions, benefits and second home allowances?

In reality they earn the equivalent of double that at least. And we have hundreds of the useless feckers....

[meridian]

£74k?

Here's an unpopular thought, maybe we should start paying them decent money and we could get some decent politicians.

[EternalOptimist]

Sadly, we live in a representative democracy, not a true democracy.
So we have representatives, expenses, pay, parties, elections, political broadcasts, party leadership elections and all the rest of the baggage.
One day we will have a true democracy with a referendum on every vote, brought directly to your PC by the power of IT and the interweb.
Vote EO. you know it makes sense

[d000hg]

You need to change your friends?

Actually I am amazed you have any friends....

To many of my friends, I am their right-wing friend.

[BrilloPad]

No doubt my FaceBook wall will shortly be full of claptrap about "Tories give MPs 10% pay rise while nurses get 1%" from my left-wing friends, who conveniently forget the facts that most (it seems) MPs have been campaigning NOT to get this pay-rise.

You need to change your friends?

Actually I am amazed you have any friends....

[d000hg]

I wonder who is paying for this?

The cost of the pay-rise is probably tiny compared to the cost of the board who made the decision.

[d000hg]

No doubt my FaceBook wall will shortly be full of claptrap about "Tories give MPs 10% pay rise while nurses get 1%" from my left-wing friends, who conveniently forget the facts that most (it seems) MPs have been campaigning NOT to get this pay-rise.

[BrilloPad]

Presumably nurses are getting 11%?

[DimPrawn]

I wonder who is paying for this?

[NickFitz]

For some, anyway: MPs given go ahead for 10% pay rise to £74,000 - BBC News