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MP's want 32% pay rise....

coastline
coastline Posts: 1,661 Forumite
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Well they can have it...1% a year for 32 years...;)

read on...

MPs have told the watchdog reviewing their pay that they deserve a 32% hike to £86,250, it was revealed today.
The research, which politicians completed anonymously, found that 69% thought they were underpaid on £65,738.
The average level suggested for the salary was £86,250.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/we-want-32-per-cent-pay-rise-mps-tell-watchdog-reviewing-their-pay-8446553.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/10/mps-call-pay-rise-survey
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  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    Average level?

    It'd be interesting to see the median level; the mode; and the range.

    Then we'd get a feel of how many of them want to get their snouts in the gravy.
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    They should have saved this one for April 1st.
    No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    I want a 50% payrise. Willl I get one. Not a cat in hells chance.

    So doesn't really matter what people think.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    I think if we're ever to attract competent people to run this country, we'll need to pay them significantly more.

    However the current shower of incompetent buffoons can jog on if they think they deserve another penny.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    This was just asking MPs what they feel they are worth. We'd all want a pay rise at the end of the day, and MPs are no different.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    To be fair, is 86k too far off the level of responsibility? Get rid of their allowances in toto and I dare say it will be cost effective for the taxpayer.
  • the_flying_pig
    the_flying_pig Posts: 2,349 Forumite
    If I received a similar survey I'd ask for a lot.

    MPs' pay could be pegged forever to the national average salary [the proper average, all genders & including PT work] say 2-3 times it so about £50-75k? With proper expenses [maybe the govt could own some kind of hall of residence?] for those living further than commuting distance.

    £85k really sounds a lot to me.
    FACT.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    I wonder how much the Ministers want?

    Some MPs may justify it but not sure about their "boses".
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • Fella
    Fella Posts: 7,921 Forumite
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    They should give them it, & cancel all the numerous loopholes that (still) allow them to make tens of thousands extra.

    The current system is designed to allow MPs to take a low headline wage for good publicity, whilst trousering a huge salary in reality. Far better to pay them more so they can't claim to be working for £60k-ish a year & end their myriad ways of topping up their wages via expenses.

    And don't forget many of them have high-paying jobs in addition to their role as MPs, not to mention lucrative part-time gigs writing columns, giving speeches, etc etc.
  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    wonder what Rugged Toast, PaulF81 and their friends have to comment on this?????
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