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Heres another suggestion today

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/starmer-propo ... 27217.html

I am probably not going to be popular but I have a few different viewpoints. An MP can be voted out so their income is not always secure. To a thick MP who happens to be selected to stand as an MP and wins they think they are in heaven with theses wages. Some of the most intelligent people would not want to be an MP because they can earn much more elsewhere and an MP is not always a stable job. I think the quality of most MPs is really lacking, most of what I see and hear is just so much drivel. Bad leadership and quality of commons and lords is holding the country back. I don't just mean covid and not aiming this at one party.

Perhaps the reason why the issue of MPs wages and pay rises has never been satisfactorily resolved in the past is that it is just too difficult to.

One justification in the past for the MPs' high wages was that the hours worked were long and unsocialable. However that is hard to support when some MPs have another job or 2,3,4 ..... that also pays them a salary. As an example there is a London Labour MP who works as an A&E consultant in an NHS hospital, or the SNP member in Parliament who is on the board of (I think) 13 companies with one of those companies alone paying him more than £10k per year for 2 hours work per month.

I suspect those MPs with additional jobs will argue they do those in their spare time, no different to a member of the public working more than 1 job, but surely for the MP who also works shifts in a busy A&E department in a hospital how is it even possible physically and mentally to do those 2 jobs.

Nobody would expect, but no doubt some would ask, that their MP work 7 days a week/24 hours a day, but how many hours do they actually work as an MP ? If you ask 10 MPs you will probably get 10 different answers, which I think it is why it is just to difficult to reach a consensus on MPs wages.

While I was searching on the net about MP wages, there was a couple other snippets that came up:

- Those MPs that chair commons select committees (Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Hunt were 2 MPs that came to mind) receive £16k on top of their MP salary to perform the roles

- MPs that lose their seats are entitled to a 'Loss of Office Payment' - lump sum equivalent to double their statutory redundancy payment, provided they have held that same seat for 2 years or more.

They are also given a lump sum of money called the 'Winding Up Budget" (£57k London/£54k outside of London) for a "Winding Up Period" of their office and disposal of associated items, travel expenses and as well as paying any outstanding parliamentary staff salaries or monies owed in lieu of notice/holidays.

And finally they are given another lump sum, a "Winding Up Payment" which is the equivalent of 2 months pay.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit ... ries-64256


In the last parliament British MPs earned £8.4 million on top of their salaries, according to data website Data Lobo, with 15 MPs earning more than half of that
BorisJohnson earned the most, nearly £800,000

Even that doesn't tell the whole story.
I am fairly sure that owners of companies receive dividends thst are not shown.

I think i need change their accommodation from ivory towers to gold

jimny1 wrote: 10 Oct 2020 17:33 Watch what happens after christmas when they start to recoup the losses from the coronavirus outlay
There will be cuts everywhere, including pensions as they keep mentioning the triple lock, pay freezes, increases in tax , food and utility , etc etc to pay back the two trillion ever increasing debt the buffoons have accrued
But god forbid the government have to have their wages frozen, nothing will change for them , they remain in their ivory towers

As i was saying yesterday, they are pushing to get rid of the triple lock, another body looking to scrap it today

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/oecd- ... 00271.html