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Do you think our MP's deserve a 10/11% pay rise?

Kits

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I am completely behind this petition and hope you are all with me, lower paid workers had a pay cut and freeze these are the ones on the lowest salary. Nurses are having their wages cut, frozen manipulated so why should they get a 10/11% pay rise £75,000 a year is too much for the job they do.

Please support this petition:


Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-stop-the-11-pay-rise-for-mps-salaries

Thanks,

Florence
 
lm with you on this kits, problem is they have already had two pay rises in the last few years.. tho many dont know MPs also get a good £160 on top food allowance, lve also seen expenses made by the current head of the DWP (IDS) for a 60pk of flash wipes which you can normally get for a few quid but he got £100 back for it!!!

still in addition to that petition, ld really love questions to be asked of the government about why last year they cut welfare by 3bn then essentially gave out 3bn in tax cuts to those with more than enough money already.. plus ld like to ask why royal mail was sold off at a massive loss... hell the last shares were sold off 3bn under what they were worth plus we are expected to make a 13bn loss on the shares owned by the public from the bailouts... what gets me the most about it all was that days later Osborne shows up in the papers about how welfare is allegedly unsustainable, so they need to cut 12bn more.. my guess is its not welfare but this government thats unsustainable so they need to take money from welfare to pay for what they sold off at a loss!!!

oh and next time you hear Cameron talk about out of control borrowing... take a look at current figures since 2010 and youll see that the deficit has shot up under the tories along with borrowing more in 5yrs than any labour government in the past 100yrs.
 
I don't know, as a pragmatist I'm always in two minds about this sort of thing.

On the one hand we'd all like to have competent, honest and balanced politicians, yet on the other we only want to pay them a fraction of what they might earn in the private sector. Not forgetting that a lot of grass roots politicians spend years without being paid, but people forget that; it's not strictly a paying job by default.

I might not agree with some of the silly decisions that certain politicians come up with, but many of them do work incredibly hard and I think it's only fair to pay them a decent salary. The same as we would all ask for ourselves (why do we assume politicians should be better humans than us?).

No doubt I'm probably quite alone in thinking this, but look at how much we pay our leaders versus other countries around the world and the picture becomes rather different. Sometimes I wonder if people won't be happy until politicians are all paid zero and yet still expected to work and be incorruptible.

Perhaps a better solution is to rebalance the economy over time so that you don’t need to be paid masses of money just to live like normal in places such as London.
 
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Dream on. Pay is a useful distraction to what I think is the real question which is how effective are politicians (or a lot of the rest of us, for that matter)? Yep, we're busy, and noisy, and always up to something or another; but at the end of the day there's probably around 10% of us in productive employment, and the other 90% doing little more than getting in the way. It doesn't look like a recipe for success.
 
Do You Think That MPS Deserve 10/11% OF their current Salary ??

There, fixed that for you.


FYI, I think they should only get the national average wage; perhaps then they work harder to improve life for everyone.
 
I can give better figures for a local MP to me he and his wife both MPs plus he put his wife in as mayoress of the borough they netted last year not counting the internet and other expenses over £111.000. When it boils down we are the ones who foot the bill.

Wage rises should be removed from percentages when they are already on a wage above the lower tax threshold.

Look at it this way.

Lowest paid job 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year @ £6.50 £13,520 a year 10/11% of their wages isn't a big increases but MP on say £15 an hour 40 hours £31,500 which 11% pay rise would you like in your wages.

Also remember the lowest paid do not get allowances for internet, taxis, staff etc like MP's.
 
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It might be but when lower paid workers are having pay freezes and like some in councils pay cuts they should also be held to the pay cut or freeze.
 
You do realise that the MPs don't set their salaries, it's an independent body...


YOR AVING A LARF!!

A body set up by and paid for by the MPs, and who get THEIR salary increases set BY the MPs!!
 
Best paid part-time job in the World. Large numbers have other employment and a get loads a wedge. Many are of poor quality and owe there positions to being fed thru the party machines. Cheshire Tone has a son now in the running Thank god Mandy is unlikely to produce offspring. Camers has never done useful days work in his life of which I am aware At least Boris is amusing and I suppose that's the best one can expect
 
I don't actually know what an MP earns - I could have a look. But given the responsibilities and duties and travel, the necessity to attend the House of Commons, and the hours involved, I'd have thought it should be extremely well-paid - maybe £80k+?
 
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the average lve seen is six digits, this doesnt include things like allowances, from what lve seen they get get between £150 to £400 a week food allowances then you have to consider that the expenses they claim.. lve seen MPs who have claimed for a £2 pack of flash wipes and get £100 back or claim £1000s in fees for childcare while taking away the help for those who such benefits have enabled parents to work.

hell they dont even have to do any work, all they need to do is show up and sign in to get their £300 per day.. one MP would only spend like 30mins signed in then bog off back home.. not to mention on the radio the other day there was a story about how a large number of MPs are getting paid despite not living up to any of their obligations...

my point being is they are throwing too much money at themselves and we are getting very little back. just austerity while being told to tighten our belts by those who have never needed to worry.

recently l read something very interesting which worded my thoughts much better, the current parliament seems to only care about making money for its donors as shown by the fact they keep on getting tax cuts, they seem to believe that by throwing money at the wealthy that money will trickle down, however if experience has taught me anything its that the wealthy seem to live to increase their wealth by investing their money in schemes and hedge funds or even moving it entirely out of the country entirely and on luxurary goods which is no help to the economy (apart from those who sell luxury goods). my point being is trickle down economics would only work if money was trickling down to the rest of us as a good economy relies on the fact that money passes through the hands of everyone and not just the few.. this is why tories are toxic to the country, their ideas may sounds grand but all they are doing is blaming one section of society for all the problems while causing them.

a good example would be the massive losses made on the royal mail privatisation (pretty sure we have lost between 3 to 6 billion) not to mention the public purse will loose 15billion on the shares the government own from the bailouts, and to make up for those losses they cut welfare.. kind of leaves me asking why we should pay them so much for doing a bad job because a good economist will tell you the current plan just isnt working.
 
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