Quick! MP's need a Salary increase

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According to long serving Tory MP Sir Peter Bottomley, his colleagues are suffering.

They're finding it difficult to survive on their MP salary of £82,000.

They need a Salary increase to £100,000, because of all their hard work.

How can you argue with that?

YABU- They dont deserve a salary increase.
YANBU - Of course their salary should be increased!

DH earns £80k. It's more than plenty to live on. We never have to worry about money. And we don't get to claim expenses for our living costs, travel to work, nor do we get free lunches every day. Talk about being out of touch!

I've always thought that MPs are paid too little. It's why in the past it was the preserve of the rich who had other incomes.

But in return I would ban second jobs, non-execs and lucrative so-called advisory roles.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mps-earned-5m-from-second-jobs-during-lockdown/

I only get a payrise if my company makes an increased profit. He might want to look at the big hole in our economy!

I liked the Yes Minister approach, where MPs wages were tied to a set grade in the civil service.

That way they would be subject to the same pay freezes etc,

They already have ample coverage for the requirement to have second homes - and indeed, unlike any other public servant (and that's what they are, they exist to serve their constituents), they can make personal profit from that. The pension terms are good, the staff/office allowances sufficient.

No, I do not think they should be getting pay increases larger than elsewhere in the public sector.

They should not be insulated from the effects of pay freeze any more than their constituents

@Moneysavvymam

please this must be joke

It's not. He's my MP. Totally out of touch

Depends on if you want your country to be run by people who couldn’t run a bath. If MPs salaries can’t compete with private sector professionals, the don’t expect a great deal fo talent in our representatives in parliament.

Let’s not forget he also claimed £16,500 in expenses in 2020/2021

Read that and checked it wasn't April.... 9k expenses.. I'm in the wrong job

@martingrowler

I think MPs salaries should be low. If MPs were paid small salaries then we'd have better ones in my opinion as they'd be in the jobs through passion and giving a shit instead of the lifestyle. Much like our nurses and teachers.

It takes more than just passion to participate and perform in a parliamentary democracy. Passion is not a substitute for competence. If we want smart, accomplished people to sit in the legislature than they need to be paid accordingly.

It would be interesting to know what additions to his basic wage of 82k Sir Peter Bottomley gets in a normal year related to his position as an MP ?

Part of me thinks we do actually need to pay MPs a higher in the hope of attracting more people to the role who are not backed by family money.

However, to speak out about this at a time when UC has just been cut and ordinary people are facing big cost of living rises with no hope of a wage increase is just dense and shows a complete lack of understanding about how most people in the country live.

www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp/peter-bottomley/117

I'd be quite happy for MPs pay to be directly linked to the UK average wage. If they want a pay rise then they will have to work to increase that.

Also ban 2nd jobs, being an MP should be a full time role.

MPs are public sector. Tie their increases to those of civil servants, local government, NHS.

I believe that the Liberal MP Cyril Smith said that MP's were worth their weight in gold - and should be paid on that basis.

Boris has made some done deaf comments recently and this MP has managed to out do Boris.

*tone deaf

It is a difficult one because the current bunch are largely useless, but why would anyone with the skills become an MP? My husband and I both earn twice an MPs salary, more than the PM, our jobs might be skilled and require hard work, but they are not in the private eye.

If you pay £80k a year for MPs you get people who are worth £80k per year. Personally I want the best and brightest being MPs, not a collection of people who were too incompetent to survive in private business or who bullied their way to senior positions in unions running our country.

Jokers... the lot of them.
Shitting their kiddy pants about living off an 80k+ wage (excluding their ludicrous expenses!). Probably due to the increases in food prices, gas and leccy, NI, and now council tax (again 🙄). I mean I'm just trying to find a shred of empathy for them. It's a real struggle for them on such meagre salaries 😳

Bottomley 😂 the most Tory name ever.

You get what you pay for. Never mind £100,000, I'd be entirely supportive of paying MPs £500,000. Then the job would attract competent people who otherwise are drawn to the private sector, instead of incompetent morons like Sir Peter Bottomhole.

We get who we vote for! We can't be angry at the mp because people votes for them. You have to be angry at the electorate, and/or the opposition parties for not providing a better alternative.

Oh I am trust me. But I at least didn't vote for the idiots, so I can still complain about them and wonder why others thought they were a good option. Plus the electorate have also been lied to numerous times by the current government, and have been led to believe there is no one better out there than the tories. I can think of many better options, my arse for example. It could make better choices.

MP salaries used to be linked to senior civil service/public sector salaries - but the link was abandoned once public sector civil salaries stopped rising. Public Sector employees are still expected to live in Central London without a wage increase.

Bottomley is now comparing MPs with GPs. He forgets that to become a GP you need to have good school qualifications and then go to medical school and train for 7 years+. MPs require no qualifications.

Conservatives are big on market forces. There is clearly an over supply of people wishing to become MPs. There are no problems recruiting for the job. So - unlike say with lorry drivers- there is no reason to increase the salary.

And as others have said the headline salary is one thing. What individual MPs receive once allowances are taken into account is much higher.

@MatildaIThink

I believe they should be paid more too, but I save my ire for the bunch of toffs with inherited wealth, who use their position to advance their own interests, and £82k is, quote, chicken feed.

Rather than those who spent years as an unpaid local councillor.

Isn't it only one person who has said this? Not exactly like all MPs are crying out for it.

In any event, you couldn't pay me enough to do that job, I certainly wouldn't do it for £100k! But then that's why I'm not an MP