SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH...
Interesting to read that MPs ought to be awarded a 23% pay rise, taking their salaries to £76,000, a committee of senior members chaired by Mickl Martin, the Speaker, is set to recommend this week. The MPs believe they are underpaid compared with managers in the public sector. They are ready to put off their pay rise, however, until after the next election to avoid provoking voters at a time when other public sector workers are seeing increases capped at about 2.5%. How chivalrous of them. Let 'em eat cake, eh? Let me tell you that politicians are amongst the most greedy financially driven people you will ever meet. Don't be taken in by all this "doing their bit for a better society" spin and bluster - they are fat pigs, plunging their snouts into the trough of public finance largesse. The idea here is to put in the wage increase now, but let is sit for a few years until AFTER the people next speak. Then, hey presto, pop the champagne corks, it's bingo time as they get their massive increase and there will be NOTHING we can do about it. So, which of the political parties at Westminster will OPPOSE this wage-fest?
David Vance
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Oh how you malign those useful, decent farm animals!!
Bernard - fantastic.
David - no different here in the US. Then after raiding the public's money they become lobbyists to raid it some more and influence spending.
If they want managment salaries, they should adhere to manamgement standards of expenses.
The self delusion of MPs is preposterous, so they are "underpaid in comparison with managers in the public sector", well so what MPs don't manage anything apart from their offices so why is that the appropriate comparison? Surely their rates of pay should be compared with clerical staff at best.
It isn't even as if most of them have foregone the opportunity to enjoy lucrative careers in order to become MPs as they like to claim.