No Government.

PhylPho

Generali wrote: »

Presumably the PM, speaker, Deputy Speaker and Chancellor get paid as they're still in their jobs and the others will get paid as backbenchers as that is what they are. I'm just guessing though.

Interesting.

A couple of weeks back, we went on to the Parliamentary website where you input your postcode to find out who your MP is. We actually do know who our MP is but due to recent boundary changes, we've been moved out of our former constituency and dumped into the neighbouring one.

So we wanted to look at the boundaries map. We input our postcode into the 'find your MP' box and the search reported that it couldn't find MP for that postcode. Huh?

We then popped in the postcode of some friends living in a different part of England. The search reported it couldn't find anyone there, either. We then input the postcode of our relatives. Same result as before.

Finally, on a different page of the website, we read that no-one would be able to locate their MP using the postcode facility because there were no MPs left to locate. Their jobs no longer existed.

On which basis, therefore, no salary should've been paid to any MP because he / she was not an MP and was therefore not representing the electors of his / her constituency.

At least: I hope that's the case. Perhaps someone can clarify this for us?

I haven't time to do the math right now but two weeks (or more) of an MP's standard salary x total number of the last Parliament's MPs must add up to more than just a few bob. . .

chris_m

According to;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7582061/General-Election-2010-Retiring-MPs-to-pocket-650000-in-salary-before-election.html

Retiring MPs get paid up to and including Polling Day. Those campaigning for re-election also get paid as normal, presumably that ends on the day following Polling Day if they are defeated.
Neither, however, are able to use Commons facilities.

Generali

mitchaa wrote: »

So Scotland with 5m people spend £8,894 per head and London with 8.5m people spend £8,817 per head. Difference of £77 per head.

Yup. Difference between Scotland and SE England is in excess of £2500 per head.

Why compare nation with region other than to make a debating point? Better to compare nation with nation surely?

StevieJ

amcluesent wrote: »

The plain fact is, England has now been stolen from it’s people.

Maybe it has been given back to the people.

Kohoutek

Public spending as a proportion of GDP:

Northern Ireland; Wales: 70%
Scotland; West Midlands; Yorkshire & Humberside; NW England : 55%
London: 35%

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20936/20100426/uk-public-spending-48of-gdp-cebr.htm