Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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15 October 2009
17:3930551Actually it is not a sufficient salary for the job they do and to attract the right calibre of person. I would rather see a much higher salary plus a fixed allowance for a Parliamentary office and leave it at that.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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15 October 2009
18:1930563Well Barryw cant agree with you
thought we were doing to well lol
15 October 2009
22:5230588Their basic salary is about £65k. Two or three times the average wage. If MPs think they can't live on that they need help.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 October 2009
05:0730590It may seem a lot to someone who is a shop assistant but it is nowhere near enough for a high level business executive. The job requires sacrificing your personal life and being exposed to all kinds of attacks and insults.
16 October 2009
07:1430592It has to be a balance, though, between the desire to serve the country and the business rates issue. Clearly salaries have moved on, but I want an MP who has firstly a wish to serve and then an eye to the paycheck, not the other way around.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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16 October 2009
07:5130605BERN
100% CORRECT and we are far from that, so lets look at these allowances/salary again
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 October 2009
07:5230606I have to agree with Bern here.
If MP's are promoted to the Cabinet where their specialist skills would come into play (that's if they have any of course and we can see that many of the current cabinet (and previous ones), don't have any specail skills at all, apart from cocking things up) an increase in salary or allowance would be given.
£65k is more than enough for an (ordinary, back-bench) MP.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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16 October 2009
07:5630610ROGER
We are at 1 on this
overhaul this system, get back the trust of the people
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 October 2009
10:1330628But Roger, where do the specialist skills and talent come for the Cabinet? - backbenchers and new MPs..... If you want talent then you have to pay the rate for the job and we dont pay them enough.
Bern - if you are successful running a business and wish to put those skills to the service of the country, in Parliament and perhaps Cabinet eventually and you are used to an income of £250,000, will you really want your family to make the sacrifices that would be involved to become a MP on £65,000? Of course if they can continue to have second jobs and Directorships to bring in more dosh then fair enough but you often find those wanting to keep MPs pay low also are against second jobs. Oh, and by the way, even that would mean the family making sacrifices because of long hours involved in multiple jobs.
It just does not work - why on earth do you think there are so many 'professional politicians' now? These are not necessarily the people we would prefer to see in Parliament.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 October 2009
11:1830633why does chas elphicke want to stand so much?
my guess is that he will be taking a drop in income to take up the role of our elected member.
maybe it is just a desire to serve?
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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16 October 2009
12:2230635HOWARD(Oh mighty one lol)
If only I could believe you on charlie boy
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 October 2009
13:0730644Thats right Howard, I expect that is what it is combined with a deep interest in politics and this country. There are too few like him around as we can see, there are too many time servers and professional politicos. A decent wage might help get more like Charlie to come forward.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 October 2009
15:4730657I agree Charlie is a good guy - but I would say that wouldn't I ? he has many serious concerns and will work well for Dover.
Roger
Brian Dixon
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16 October 2009
18:3530670mp"s pay should be performase based.the more work they do the more they get payed.[starting pay £7.50p an hour to start with.}
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 October 2009
19:2730681Actually the less politicians do the better. Good Government is minimal government.
16 October 2009
20:2430698But minimalist management takes hard and skilled work BarryW, doesn't it. As for C Elphick, I do not know him so cannot comment on him personally, but I would see a political role as a stepping stone to other things later on rather than an immediate and inastant hit, and that is probably ok, as long as it is transparent and not open to corruption.