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Do MPs actually need a raise at all?

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eleusis · 09/01/2008 15:55

When they are limiting it frome public sector all round?

I think not.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7179170.stm

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LittleBella · 09/01/2008 16:02

Well I'm not getting one. In common with millions of others, I should think.

figroll · 09/01/2008 16:03

"The body goes on to suggest inflation linked increases for the following two years with an additional £650 per year as a "catch-up" payment.

This is to recognise that MPs have had a series of below inflation increases since 2002."

Yes, me too - I wonder if they want to give me any catch up payments?

Again - snouts and troughs come to mind.

SueBaroo · 09/01/2008 16:04

I just wonder how they cope on that salary. It's a pittance, really.

eleusis · 09/01/2008 18:22

Yes, and that pitiful expense account that REALLY should not be public.

Twonks.

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constancereader · 09/01/2008 18:27

I usually argue that MP's are not as bad as they are painted (not ALL of them anyway), but this makes me despair. What are they thinking????

MsHighwater · 14/01/2008 23:08

Why has the Review Board assumed that the relationship between MPs pay and other occupations was right BEFORE the below-inflation rises? That's what I want to know.

I reckon there were good reasons for raises below inflation and I don't think those reasons have gone away (speaking as a public sector worker)

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