mps want to get a salary increase to 100k

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..quite shocked to see that on average they calim allowances of 130k

in order to avoid bad publicity labour mps have been advised to write individually to demand the increase rather than collectively!

are they worth it here

does paying them more make us likely to have better or worse ones?

I'm not surprised at all.

Fiddling whilst Rome burns.

Classic.

the government is run by the old boys network, they help each other out, it's mad.

Thinking of themselves before their constituents.

Yes, it is sickening the way they get a cross party consensus on things like this. Democracy anyone????

they are discussing it now on five live radio

What's bad is that they know it will cause a furore, but they will do it anyway with a cross party consensus.

It makes you realise how potentially corrupt the whole system is. PR anyone?

Mornin' all.

Saw this in the paper yesterday and choked on my cornflakes.

Not sure I have as much of an issue with the pay packet as the bloody expenses.

I can think of NO commercial organisation that would allow employees to claim individual expenses up to 250 quid without receipts! if they did, half the population would permanently be at lunch with their mates. (someone please DO correct me if that piece of info was mis-reported, of course). And how is the taxman dealing with all these undeclared expenses?

But the bigger issue for me is the package of allowances that allows them to exist outside the 'norms' of the rest of the population...housing allowances, 1st class travel (for godssake).

What is their pension plan?

I do think MPs should be subject to the same taxation the rest of us get to enjoy. I think I need a receipt for a business expense that exceeds £5.

£250 is ridiculous, they could be spending it on anything.

"The 1922 committee submission does not specifically call for a rise to £100,000, but it states that MPs? earnings have dropped 15% behind the private sector jobs"

And here was me thinking their job was public sector not private. Compare their earning with people who do just as long hours (or in many cases more) in the public sector (nurses, teachers anyone?) and I think you'll find they are very well paid indeed.

i think they just raise the issue of 100k through a sly leak to the press and then come in with a request for a bit less and think we won't be so bothered then (not that anyone has a say apart from themselves anyway)

The problem with MPs is that (with a few noteable exceptions such as Clare Short, Mo Mowlem, Tony Wedgwood-Benn) only self-serving arseholes want to do the job.

may have been said already but....

THE GREEDY BASTARDS!

feel much better now Byeeeeee