Snouts in the trough!
 

Following hard on the heels of the Turner report, which recommends that, unless we are public sector workers, we must work till the age of 68 to qualify for the paltry state pension, comes this heartwarming couple of tales of the trials and tribulations of Westminster folk...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...897351,00.html


Which, for some, might be hard enough to swallow, but it is the next one which really riles me...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...901733,00.html

If, like me, you would not pay any of them with the holes out of washers, here is your opportunity to tell the champion of Human Rights for Goldfish what you estimate that he and his colleagues are really worth...

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its good to see all the mp's agreeing on somthing for once

just a pity the subject was their own payrise

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Self indulging hypocritits. MP = monetary parasites. :D

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no comment .................................................. .........

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And why no coment granny???? :confused:

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I thought they were just parasites!

VOTE BAD WOLF

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because its one law for them and another for us,,,,,:mad:

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As a gentleman I will concede that point. Mind you its 100% true. ;)

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maybe MP'S should have to strip off their clothes for their payrises since the coomunity wardens have had to resort to it to keep their jobs never mind a payrise

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Oh come on, have a word with yourself. Can you imagine Doris Karloff as a centrefold????? Or Gwyneth Dunwoody as a page three pin-up????

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ahh but we could tie chopped liver around their necks and let loose some rotweilers and a have a kind of gruesome naked its a knock out kind of thing where the person with the most limbs left gets the payrise

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Depends how warped a mind you have. :eek: Would make a good panto for this time of year, well maybe. :D

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How much butt kissing would I need to earn that money in a year? :eek:

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us normal workers dont get expenses why should they..£59,095 is a hell of a lot of money why cant they pay their own way ????like the rest of us ..
instead of junkets to the caribean first class at all inclusive hotels ,it would be sleasy jet flights to blackpool ,premier travel inn and a slap up meal at mac donalds .....money saved =2 new hospitals and the staff to go with them !!!bit of an exageration on that one but we agree loads of money would be saved !!

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I am inclined to agree with Geoff on this one. I appreciate that as part of their Job that they have to travel to London, which is of course a long way if you are anywhere north of Watford. As with any other employment that requires travelling they should get a travel allowance when having to travel on work related buisness.

However, £59-000 is taking the bloody P*ss!:mad:

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Dont forget second residences personal assistants (very personal in some cases) taxis entertainment bills. The kist could go on and all that for sitting on a bench with 600 plus who are as bad.

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You have just unwittingly put forward an argument for the abolition af Parliament and the return of an Absolute Monarchy (which as it happens I am rather keen on)!

Lets face it, at least you expect the Royals to spend money on party's!

Not this bunch of looney labour moron's

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Wouldnt say unwittingly he he just owd lizzie and co are a hell of a lot cheaper. :D

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Indeed they are!

Perhaps they could use this new found power by sticking Fat John Prescotts head on a pike and using his recycled flab to reduce world starvation!

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Only one problem there would be the Save The Whale campaigners. :D

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Perhaps that would not be such a bad thing. They could put him in one of those special reserves where people could come and look at him and even possibly throw food at him at feeding time!

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The star attraction at London Zoo " role up role up and meet the man whale the only one in the country. See it perform and listen to its calls (feed me feed me just bldy feed me will ya). Role up role up tickets only a fiver rotten fruit and veg included."

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Sounds like a good idea to me!

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:D Its comes down to wether the zoo could afford to feed him. :D

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is their a difference we exchange one set of tyrants for another !
i quote the patriot benjamin martin when asked if he would support the american war of independence ."Why should I agree to swap one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
so instead of having just one greedy tyrant we have 600 to feed and keep in the luxury they are used to...

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I do not consider the Monarch or her heirs to be tyrants, however I understand and except your point.

However, rather them than corrupt bent socialist rather alleged socialist politicians who are only thinking of themselves and lining their own pockets at other peoples expense. They are interesting in nothing more than trying to put themselves in the history books and are not looking beyond the end of their noses.

Lets face it. If things went to a referendum, (even with Charles being as unpopular as he has been this last few years) Between Charles III and President Blair we would have an absolute Monarch tomorrow!

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the only difference between the queen and mp's is that although they both get paid for sitting on their arses the queen has to wave her hand while doing so.

good value for money all that extra hand waving

anyway better not mouth off about the queen too much or i may find myself dead in a crashed car somwhere in a tunnel in france :engsmil:

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ahh theres nothing like someone who know's their place in the grand scheme of things ,keep quiet stay alive ,mouth off and become a victim of yet another conspiracy theory!

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Well looks like Chav aint going to France in the near future of near any tunnels for that matter.

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i aint going anywhere near london tower any time soon either :D

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Just to clarify a point about Public Sector workers. I'm a Civil Servant and, yes, we can retire at 60, though I am past that age and still working because my CS pension will be very small. Civil Servants who retire at age 60 get their CS pension, to which they have contributed like any other pension fund and which is based on their years of reckonable service, but they don't get the State Retirement Pension (men) until they are 65.

There has been so much media hype about this and people are being conned into thinking that we get the State Pension earlier than those in the Private Sector. It just ain't so.

Bear in mind also that, unless one is a Senior Civil Servant (a Sir Humphrey), there's no comparison with the pay and pensions that our beloved MPs can expect. As I said, after 25 years service I can't afford to retire before I'm 65 when I will slide into genteel poverty. On the other hand, perhaps I could become an MP?

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Thats fair enough but what will the state pension be by the time I retire? I have a private pension which I get at 60 but if there is a state pension will it be worth anything. I willchoose to work as long as I am fit to in the hope that I can enjoy my last few years.

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Wether it will or not would come down to the age old problem of market forces unfortunately. As they are not making big gains I am considering upping my contributions as a countermeasure.