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Originally Posted by DtheP47
Roger that MrE
£65K to in most cases 2/3s of ones working life hundreds of miles from home. Weekends spent listening to constituents whose problems they expect you to solve. Dividing your time between electors, various local interests and last but no means least ones family. On top of which then pilloried for claiming expenses to which you are entitled to function properly. We get our MPs cheap.
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How about £12-15K to most cases...for helping people die with dignity, for helping people with dementia, learning difficulties, disabilities or simple old age. How about these people having no chance of a pay rise for the foreseeable future because these very MP's that you are advocating need paying more are squeezing the budgets of county councils whilst talking about 'real term' rises and 'no cuts to frontline services'.
Many MP's top up there earnings anyway, some by dodgy deals, some by teetering on the edge of legality, some by fiddling expenses, claiming for second homes using unpaid staff, claiming that they employ family etc..etc...etc...
Your post claims 'expenses to which they are entitled to function properly'...would that include duck hides, moat cleaning, high end wallpaper and antique furniture for offices etc..etc...
And what do they do for that money..
They vote according to party not according to public opinion
In opposition they vote against the ruling party regardless of whether or not the policy in question is a good idea just for the hell of it.
In power they ride roughshod over the very people who elected them by saying 'we know better than you, so suck it up.'
When they actually start behaving like people instead of animals in the house of commons, when they make actual improvements to things instead of blustering with twisted statistics and using words like 'real terms', when they stop the 'do as I say not as I do' mentality that pervades every single thought process of an MP...then maybe, just maybe I'd start thinking about financial remuneration.
Giving themselves a massive hike in pay whilst strangling everyone else to the point of needing foodbanks is a downright obscenity, regardless of the colour of the rosette you wear on election day.