MPs 'should be paid four times as much as average worker': Watchdog's reforms could see wages rise to £92,000 | Mail Online FFS
as aside, look at the right hand column of utter tripe and shite on the daily mail page...the first 6 celeb gossip stories are all about kim kardashian....so weve got a story of a £92k salary and this mind numbing shit all on the same page...thats the hypocrisy of the daily fail, and the state of the great unwashed as a whole..deplorable.
But come on, these hyper intelligent, super-hard working folk have earned their 11% rise while the rest of us suffer. A true statement of "do as I say, not as I do." how the fuck do they justify the ludicrous expenses and fringe benefits? They choose to take a job in London, if they don't want to put up with London costs, then fuck off to a job where they can afford to live. Is there a single real world job out there where people are paid to commute, paid for a second home near the office, paid for their meals and drinks and other living expenses? Not that I know of. greedy, self-serving, megalomaniac bastards.
Tend to agree. Never seen or met a politician that has been worth a vote, or my hard earned tax payments. Most of them seem to be argumentative idiots with crazy schemes, or money grubbing cnuts with no morals...
As opposed to... Metropolitan Police (2010): Chief Constable: £ 260,088 Deputy Chief Constable: £ 214,722 "...new chief constable of Essex, Stephen Kavanagh, will be paid £192,163—a basic wage of £148,000, an allowance of £22,000 and a housing subsidy of £7,000." House of Commons - Police and Crime Commissioners: Register of Interests - Home Affairs Committee
As apposed to this really..... Bonuses and executive pay at Big Six UK energy firms under fire | Business | The Guardian
Don't pay enough and all you get are rich, out if touch politicians. Bit like the front benches then.,.
+ 1 , most politicians now originate from a private education where families have money. We need a decent salary to attract some 'normal, intelligent' people into standing for election.
I don't think £92k is excessive for an MP. What is unaccecptable is an 11% payrise, plus perks, at a time when the rest of the country are lucky to get even a less than inflationary pay rise. For a better undertanding of the current state of play I would recommend, again, The Triumph of the Political Class by Peter Oborne. Social mobility is falling, wealth and power is polarising and the middle classes are shrinking. The sense of self entitlement of those at the top of the public, private and political sectors is staggering. We are told that a recovery is underway yet the fundamentals are the same or worse than they were in 2008 before the crash. Debt continues to rise and the can is being kicked down the road, witness what has just happened in the US. Those at the top are grabbing what they can whilst they can.
Private business, in theory, pays high based on delivery, I.e. Shareholder pleasing (without entering the moral debate on whether the same monopoly would have still delivered even with an orang-utan at the helm), and the energy and utilities are seen as good safe havens by our pension funds. chief police officers are, in theory, rewarded for results, I.e. Reduction in reported crime, etc (without entering the debate on real vs reported crime). politicians, IMHO, merely turn up to bury their snouts in the trough and see what new ways there are to freeload off the state, then get their buddy's in a quango to give them even more. not that I'm biased in any way.
going to go out on a limb here and suggest politicians are a monster of our own making. how many would vote for a politician who tells it like it is.
