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.