"Generation Rent" now on the Wacky Backy

westernpromise

I think MPs should be paid 150% of whatever they can prove they earned in the previous 3 years.

This will mean unequal pay but the job itself is somewhere between social worker and junior paralegal, i.e. it requires very little skill - we know this because Labour stood the 18-year-old Red Princess Emily Wedgwood-Benn at the last GE. If an 18-year-old can be an MP as a first-ever job, how hard can it be?

Linda_D_2

thequant wrote: »

Who would live in a House like this? Campaigners' plan to turn Parliament into 364 flats and move MPs to Hull would save £120million over five years
Campaign group proposed to move Parliament to Hull and convert building
Palace of Westminster would be transformed into 364 affordable flats
One-bedroom flat in iconic building would be available for £258 per week
Swimming pool would be built in iconic debating chambers
Generation Rent suggested relocating MPs and Lords to Hull, Yorkshire
Housing campaign group believes this would save £120m over five years
Some 335 MPs rent homes and claim expenses, costing £5.21m in 2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2975493/Who-live-House-like-Campaigners-plan-turn-Parliament-364-flats-MPs-Hull-save-120million-five-years.html

"Generation Rent" now on the Wacky Backy?

Does that mean you're having to get Roger the Lodger stoned before he'll do the dastardly deed with you?:D

Loughton_Monkey

westernpromise wrote: »

..... i.e. it requires very little skill - we know this because Labour stood the 18-year-old Red Princess Emily Wedgwood-Benn at the last GE. If an 18-year-old can be an MP as a first-ever job, how hard can it be?

I think she's a special case. She would have had years and years of 'home tutoring' even from the age of 5. By the age of 18, she would know 100% what her mission is.....

• Tax the rich.
• Nationalise Railways, all transport, Docks, Banks, Telecomms, Royal Mail, Utilities, and Construction.
• Let the Unions run the country.

OK, that might still be a little bit 'centrist' but don't worry. Ed will whip her into shape to be a real Socialist.

antrobus

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

I don't think he made it up!

He could well be referring to the incidence of the diminutive Hazel 'Chipmunk' Blears, the former Labour MP for Salford.

Feeling hungry (I assume) one evening she decided that the taxpayer should cough up £2.50 for a Kit Kat from the minibar. Almost certainly, the item could have been found more cheaply by the act of wandering to the local 'open all hours' shop.....

Only made No 4 on the list of the 25 most ludicrous claims for some reason. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5581638/MPs-expenses-25-most-ludicrous-claims.html

Surely spending £2.50 on Kitkat has to be more ludicrous then spending 67p on a packet of Ginger Crinkle biscuits?

wotsthat

antrobus wrote: »

Surely spending £2.50 on Kitkat has to be more ludicrous then spending 67p on a packet of Ginger Crinkle biscuits?

I disagree. The public have been jealously eyeing the provision of free biscuits to politicians since well before the expenses scandal. Any politician worth his salt will have known buying biscuits for a meeting could only end in tears.

The Kit-Kat simply represents poor value whereas the Ginger Crinkles were a politically toxic choice.

fordcapri2000

wotsthat wrote: »

Maybe we need 600 of these..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31679475

Don't think I'll bother being an MP. Don't fancy the pay cut or having to worry about the DM exposing me for putting a meal deal and an extra kit-kat on expenses on the way to a meeting. The potential employers seem a bit odd too - they want champagne performance on a lemonade budget.

No wonder so many oddballs are attracted to the job.

BS after BS after BS after BS, day after day after month after month after year after year......

Who are you trying to kid, who the f*** is going to pay you more than £20k let alone £67k, you spend 99% of your over rated and opinionated life on here :rotfl:

PixelPound

westernpromise wrote: »

I think MPs should be paid 150% of whatever they can prove they earned in the previous 3 years.

This will mean unequal pay but the job itself is somewhere between social worker and junior paralegal, i.e. it requires very little skill - we know this because Labour stood the 18-year-old Red Princess Emily Wedgwood-Benn at the last GE. If an 18-year-old can be an MP as a first-ever job, how hard can it be?

Does this include their time as an MP? So be a pay escalator? If just from before, what about MP's who are in the job 10 20 years?

wotsthat

fordcapri2000 wrote: »

BS after BS after BS after BS, day after day after month after month after year after year......

Who are you trying to kid, who the f*** is going to pay you more than £20k let alone £67k, you spend 99% of your over rated and opinionated life on here :rotfl:

I just love the thought of you permanently seething because you made a tit of yourself on the internet a few years ago. Get over it - at your time of life it can't be good for you.