Cheer up! It’s not all bad news!

Although I have never experienced it, I’m sure that electoral defeat is a painful experience.

It cannot be nice to loose your job – particularly when you are as well paid as an MLA.

However, this morning’s Belfast Telegraph carried a report which suggests that it isn’t all bad news for those MLAs who lost their seats.

Politicians who will not be retuning to Stormount will receive a “resettlement allowance” of almost £16,000 PLUS “winding-up” expenses of up to £16,000.

All that for being members of an Assembly which never met for most of its four year existence !

Comments

[Percy]

that's surely a "wind-up" for voters samuel ;)

[mahons]

Double the money and ask them all to take redundancy. Start over with a new generation.

[Reg]

For God's sake.

Could one argue that these payments are discriminatory - they are clearly aimed at the UUP?!!

[Chris Gaskin]

and the Stoops ;)

[Reg]

LOL!

Now, now, Chris. Be charitable!