MPs 10% pay rise - snouts in the trough

TheBlueHorse

my mate works in public sector (as a contractor - the scum!!) and he was saying that managers are told during performance reviews that they are NOT ALLOWED to say anything negative!! hahahaha the review HAS to be positive.


Mentalists.

Andy_L

Tromking wrote: »

......changes to a 1/51 rate, still very generous.

but combined with increased retirement age & contributions and a change to career average from final salary.

You cant just pick one number from a pension scheme to compare to a different one. I could say that the civil service scheme, with its 1/43 accrual rate is better than the MP's scheme (and the NHS with its 1/54th rate) but the devil is in the detail of contribution & revaluation rates

Andy_L

TheBlueHorse wrote: »

my mate works in public sector (as a contractor - the scum!!) and he was saying that managers are told during performance reviews that they are NOT ALLOWED to say anything negative!! hahahaha the review HAS to be positive.


Mentalists.

If that was true it would be terrible.....

Andy_L

TheBlueHorse wrote: »

Essentially, they are told, you have been here another 12 months and therefore here is more money irrespective of your performance.

If that was true it would be terrible.......

kabayiri

Large numbers of people who work today have performance related pay in some form or other.

I don't see why we can't apply a similar philosophy to MPs.

Even Gordon Brown joked about his sparse attendance in parliament.

Explain to me how you can form a fully balanced opinion on something being debated when you aren't able to listen to what others say?

antrobus

shaggydoo wrote: »

... For example, Cameron is the 5th great grandson of William 1V -

And his great-great grandfather was Jewish.

shaggydoo wrote: »

...Osborne the son of a Baron...

No, he is the son of a Baronet. Not the same thing at all.

shaggydoo wrote: »

....- Boris the descendant of European royalty - etc etc.....

George III actually, I think. I'd guess he counts as a European. Although more interestingly, Bojo's grandfather was a Turkish refugee.

shaggydoo wrote: »

....... In the end I bet they're all some how related to William the Conqueror and his Earls and Barons and that nowt much has changed in 1000 years.

As already suggested, I think you'll find that there is a very good chance that you are probably related to William the Conqueror and his Earls and Barons. If you go back far enough, everyone is related to everyone else.

TheBlueHorse

Andy_L wrote: »

If that was true it would be terrible.......

It is true. It's called payscale

TheBlueHorse

Andy_L wrote: »

If that was true it would be terrible.....

It is true. It is terrible.

BobQ

prowla wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33552499

Of course it is not 10%$ because it is now linked to civil services rises so another 1% a year.

Also this increases the value of their gold plated pensions and even increases the pensions of those who lost seats at the last election.

Tromking

Jon_B wrote: »

Guess what? The national minimum wage is going up 9% next April. It's hardly an unfair pay increase for MPs. Suck it up and stop the politics of envy.

I don't see what the minimum wage has got to do with anything.
The increases in the minimum wage are merely part of measures to end the state sponsorship of the private sector.
I don't see why hard pressed taxpayers in the public sector like me should be supporting scum privateers and their greedy shareholders.