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Originally Posted by mallard
there all in it for the same thing.
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Presumably, you're referring to money and power. What a media-driven idea that is.
A junior councillor gets around £280 each month after tax and other contributions and you hardly have any power unless you are with the controlling group. You have countless e-mails and phonecalls every day plus meetings and residents' groups to attend in your spare time each week. If you are lucky enough to be granted the chair of any committee then you get in the region of £1,500 a year extra per position but they tend to be snapped up by, well, a certain person.
County Councillors get extra money but you're basically looking at a full-time job by this stage. Backbench MPs get in the region of £66k per year but spend four days a week away from their family in a house that isn't theirs and the remaining free time they have at home is gobbled up with constituency matters. They're not exactly the most stable of jobs either.
Apart from that, life is one long gravy train.