Pay per view   

 

Broonie'd be skint.

Cheeky sods 

if bette was in charge..they wouldnt even dare

I'm on twice that taking in immigration, drugs and firearms tbh.

 

And I don't even try.

 

I thought that MP's salaries and rises were now decided by an independent panel. If true then it's not the MP's who are asking for it (unless an MP has gone on record as saying they want it).

 

 

 

Yep, that's right EC

well thats what theyve asked for

 

dont mean to say they get it

 

scrounging b@stards

 

 

 

 

that's correct EC, in fact quite a few across all the parties are publicly saying its very unfair, 

But we all know they will 

I concur. But for a few, like Dennis Skinner, they're not about to object to it.

 

 

wish there was another 600 and odd like him in the House of Commons  

 

 

Windbag.

 

Dinnae want to burst yer bubble but  

Everyone to their own opinion though 

 

he may be to you...but to me he's head and shoulders above the rest in principles...he claims the least expenses of any other MP and only through illness misses a vote. Give me him a million times over to what we have in there now on all sides 

Stop playin Devils Advocate.

 

I know you agree.

Who says 

Your blog in The Spectator.

PMSL!! 

I'm not a Labour supporter, but I have the greatest respect for Dennis Skinner, the only man with principles in that den of placemen

 

 

I agree Kaytee...it doesn't matter what party you support... you can see a man of principles and he has them in bucket loads  

They are a detached elite that has become untouchable.  The more scrutiny they come under the more self serving, brazenly hypocritical and dishonest they look.  They look that way because they are that way.

 

An MP should be a vocation to serve the country, like being in the NHS and military are supposed to be.  Not a meal ticket or stepping stone to fatcat pay in industry.

Spot on.

 

exactly..and as far as I can see, only Skinner fits the bill at this time. 

Yeah, once upon a time MP's used to do the job cos they believed in it. Not for what they could get out of it 

Oddly, the MPs' panel suggests a whacking pay rise while the government decides all other public sector workers should have their salaries frozen.

 

Considering the Coalition think Labour wrecked the economy (they didn't) and Labour think the Coalition are currently wrecking the economy (they are);  Perhaps an independent panel of economists, social workers, trade unionists, business leaders, police chiefs, judges, health professionals should be sitting on the panel. 

 

Better than a bunch of idiots who think that just because bankers and lawyers have got fat pay rises, and MPs claim they can be hotshots in the City, MPs should therefore be treated as if they already have those jobs and are entitled to those rewards.

 

 

LOL. You have to be taking the pish

Not sure he is Suz  at least that's a bigger view/cover than what we have now 

Yeah, well if Carnellian can find 2 economists to agree, a couple of trade union Tsars with an ounce of pure altruistic integrity and a gaggle of Circuit Judges that can see beyond their noses then he might be on to something.

You're right EC, it was just on the news saying they DIDN'T want it, but their review body was possibly going to give it to them anyway! Apparently the body considers that their pay is falling behind!!!! Sack the reviw body, I say.

One MP, when asked if he was going to 'give his pay rise away' on the radio tonight, said "no, because of tax reasons." Whatever that means

As I always say at times like these, "if you pay peanuts ........"
Seventy bags of sand a year for pretending to run the country, but being directed by the multinational capitalists seems a lot, but most of the premiership players earn more than that in a week.
Whether this means the government should consist of Lee Clattermole, Wayne Rooney, and Paul Scholes, I'm not sure. I'll give it some thought.

Probably meaning that he'll still be taxed on X thousand pounds even if he only kept X-10 thousand pounds.

Means he's ferreting money off somewhere I guess 

Don't agree with their salaries either. I blame Jimmy Hill 

No, the people who should sit in judgement on MPs are those best placed to see the social and economic consequence of their actions.

The alternative?  A panel from the 'the great and the good' will look at salaries for 'executive positions' and the whining from MPs who claim they can earn big bucks in London's elite job market and then decide their salaries based on those claims.

 

Firms are full of people who 'could earn more money in x job at x firm'.  Do bosses pay attention to such 'grass is always greener' claims?  Mostly they treat those claims as idle bullshit. MPs are free to seek their imagined fortune outside Parliament.  They're not doing us any favours by being MPs.  Most of them are time serving hacks in safe seats where a hat-stand could be elected provided it had the right colour rosette.

personally i think 99% of them are w@nkers and dont deserve they money they get now let alone a rise

until they do their job properly i shall continue to have this opinion

 

that is all

You must have met a different bunch! For obvious reasons, over the last few decades, I've met a few, and apart from the one glaring example, they have all done their best to represent individuals.
Yet again I must say that as long as people view politics as something that happens to them rather than getting involved we willn't get anywhere. In a conversation with one of m'grandsons it became apparent that he didn't know the name of his MP and yet he knew all the talentless arseholes left in the X Factor!
Neither will we get anywhere by constantly trying to undermine our democratic system.