MPs awarded 11% pay rise

[MrsWedgeAntilles]

Saw this this morning:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25287108

The IPSA has recommended that MPs get an 11% pay rise but have to pay more into their pensions (which are now salary average rather than final pay) and will lose their £15 dinner allowance and tax funded tea and biscuits. This appears to be costing the tax payer £4.6 million.

Now I might be a be a bit bitter about this seeing as I'm a public sector worker who, like thousands of us has endured years of pay freezes and below inflation pay rises. I've never had a meal allowance or been entitled to claim for tea and biscuits, I just have to bring my own pieces.

Just wondered what others though about this? Does this seem acceptable or should I be sharpening the pitchfork and looking out the burning brand for a march on Westminster?

MPs have been taking the piss for years. Their allowances are colossal and overgenerous and their pension is the most scandalous of all the public sector pensions.

should be on the national average wage. How else can they understand what their constituents go through.

There's an other thread on this here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1933509-MPs-to-receive-11-pay-rise-they-deserve-it

and its a bit busier than here. I'm writing to my MP about this, I'm so pissed off about constantly being told I'm not worth the money I'm paid but they can do this and drink subsidised alcohol while they're about it. Westminster is a giant trough and the MPs are the pigs.

telsa

should be on the national average wage. How else can they understand what their constituents go through.

The consequences of that would be that backhanders and graft would be a standard way of buying votes in the House of Commons. It's a recipe to guarantee corruption.

I think it's probably a reasonable award. MPs' pay has fallen way behind comparable public sector roles in the last 30 years because 'there's never a good time' to increase it. There's always a recession or a crisis or a spending squeeze or a public outcry. So what we get are MPs with big private incomes, totally out of touch with reality; MPs who offer their services to lobbyists and are borderline corrupt; and MPs who take advantage of a deliberately beefed up expenses/allowances system (designed to compensate for the lack of salary increases) .... and look what trouble that caused. Reasonable, therefore, but it'll never happen because 'it's never a good time'.