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To think the headline about young MP giving away half her wage is misleading?

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SarahH12 · 15/12/2019 02:07

A friend shared an article with the headline "Britain's youngest MP vows to only take home £35k of her £79k salary" with lots of comments that it's great she is giving away half her salary.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/britains-youngest-mp-vows-only-21094591?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main

By the time you take into account tax, NI, pension, possibly student loan etc her take home would be in the region of 40-45k. So whilst it's great she's planning on donating 5-10k and it's a lot more than a lot of people, she is nowhere near giving away "half" her salary. Also she mentions she wants to take home a "working" salary. The average nurse takes home way less than 35k!! I work for the NHS and I don't know a single one of my colleagues who takes home that much.

OP posts:

AllergicToAMop · 15/12/2019 18:02

"I want my MP spend money on cleaner rather than charity" is THE most ridiculous thing I read on MN in 2019. That's an amazing achievement Swan.

I cannot believe some of you are
1- going after a bright young woman who is doing what none of you would have balls brain to do
2- criticising someone giving a lot of money to local charities

May you all nasty buggers kick a little toe on a some furniture every day for the rest of your life.

SympatheticSwan · 15/12/2019 18:07

@AllergicToAMop
Ah you're nice. Good day to you too. Yes, in a nutshell that's exactly what I would prefer - for my MP to make their personal life as comfortable as possible, to focus all her energy on her work.

Mrscog · 15/12/2019 18:09

She is completely unrealistic if she thinks the nation can afford 79k salaries for nurses and firemen. Are they worth that much? Yes - but the reality is that the scale we need them at salaries are always going to be relatively low.

AllergicToAMop · 15/12/2019 18:11

Imagine being a young woman making it to a freaking MP position and someone chimes in with "And what about cleaning?"🤦

FlamingoAndJohn · 15/12/2019 18:20

Imagine being a young woman making it to a freaking MP position and someone chimes in with "And what about cleaning?"🤦

And like fuck would anyone even think to say that to a man or assume that a man was a single parent or suggest that he think about child care.

TheNavigator · 15/12/2019 18:21

Imagine being a young woman making it to a freaking MP position and someone chimes in with "And what about cleaning?

Absolutely sums it up. Young, idealistic, kind and successful - how very dare she? I bet she keeps a mucky home - woman - know your place!

FlamingoAndJohn · 15/12/2019 18:23

I bet she keeps a mucky home - woman - know your place!

Oooh. I bet she never cleans behind her fridge or gives her door step a good donkey stoning.

AllergicToAMop · 15/12/2019 18:26

I bet she keeps a mucky home - woman - know your place!

Not just that! Also obviously bad with money too! Where is some man taking care of it for her? Poor thing.

Piggywaspushed · 15/12/2019 18:29

Let's talk instead about the MP who left teaching to start up a business with her DH , an app helping Foodbanks to promote themselves and their needs.

How wonderful.

Until you realise they charge the Foodbanks £180 for using the app.

I think there are many other MPs you need to scrutinise OP.

Only 18% of 'Nurses' vote non Labour : but we do keep finding them on MN! The nurses is sin speech marks, of course, in honour of the Blyth Valley 'nurse' tuned MP.

Aridane · 15/12/2019 18:33

Oh fuck off OP you miserable piece of work. She's trying to do something decent and all you can do is moan about it

Yep

Aridane · 15/12/2019 18:34

28% of people think OP is NOT BU

myrtleWilson · 15/12/2019 18:38

When Andy Burnham pledged to give 15% of his mayoral salary to homelessness charities I don't recall posters worrying about his ability to run GM without having a cleaner on hand. Perhaps the expectation was that his wife would manage all of that for him despite having senior posts herself so he could declutter his mind..

Aridane · 15/12/2019 18:43

Oh my goodness - she's 23 years old!

chloxox08 · 15/12/2019 18:45

So she's giving away thousands to charity and you're moaning because she's not giving enough I'd love to know how much of a % of your salary you give away since you feel like you're in a position to judge

Aridane · 15/12/2019 18:47

She is not quietly giving money to charity as she wishes to provoke discussion

She told the Nottinghamshire Live website: 'It's not about philanthropy and it's not that MPs don't deserve that salary, it's the fact our teaching assistants, nurses and firefighters do as well.

'When they get the pay rise they deserve, so will I. I hope this decision sparks a conversation about earnings.

Walkaround · 15/12/2019 18:57

Very amused by SympatheticSwan's criticism that the OP is a fool who will be unable to cope on £35k a year versus the OP's criticism that she's just not generous enough but should only be generous in secret, never to make a political stand (even though she is an MP).

Combine the two arguments and I guess some people have to justify their own selfishness by telling those more generous than themselves they should be paying for a cleaner and going on luxury holidays, as these are two of life's essentials for the high paid. This is not essential for nurses, though, as we are reliably informed by the OP they take home less pay than this MP even after her foolish donations, even if their being frazzled results in dead patients.

Lexplorer · 15/12/2019 19:20

You never know, there's a possibility by her NOT doing it quietly that other MPs may follow suit. Or that people might become aware of disparate salaries that they previously didn't know about? What a horrible op.

Aridane · 15/12/2019 19:26

I thought OP must be a goady troll but she has an established posting history

DownstairsMixUp · 15/12/2019 20:34

Newly qualified midwifes start as a band 6 not a band 5 and in London that's about right. Nurses where I live start at 22k

JustASmallTownCurl · 15/12/2019 20:41

Imagine being a young woman making it to a freaking MP position and someone chimes in with "And what about cleaning?

This.

As if the poster who raised the MP's domestic cleaning arrangements as something that even crossed their mind (I mean FFS!) would ever have done so so if the MP in question was a man.

DownstairsMixUp · 15/12/2019 20:50

So many non labour nurses on Mumsnet yet I don't know a single one and have worked in it donkeys years...

Piggywaspushed · 15/12/2019 20:53

I did a quick AS . I think I misread the thread or OP is somehow just putting thoughts into our heads by references to NHS and nurses. She does not appear to be a nurse!

Piggywaspushed · 15/12/2019 20:55

This is where I have been going wrong these years. I don't have a cleaner and my house is messy. Shame! Shame!

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