[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?

[knocky1]

A typical MP gets 90k a year. This does not strike me as much given the role and responsibilities and the hassle which goes with it.

Plus expenses, accommodation and staff.
Many have "other" jobs where they get paid for their knowledge (and not for giving the employers access to Parliament ).
Peter Kyle my MP earnt over £100,000 last year from external work, had numerous concert and sports days out, and a little £10,000 holiday in California paid by Lord Sainsbury.

https://members.parliament.uk/member/4505/registeredinterests

Small fry to Farage's work and freebies.

 

[Guinness Boy]

As long as people in power are earning lots of money, they don't care about anyone else

We'd definitely get better quality debate and legislation if they were all paid minimum wage or made to do it for free.

That or a mixture of the landed gentry and people who left a troubled school at 15.

 

[ROSM]

Plus expenses, accommodation and staff.
Many have "other" jobs where they get paid for their knowledge (and not for giving the employers access to Parliament ).
Peter Kyle my MP earnt over £100,000 last year from external work, had numerous concert and sports days out, and a little £10,000 holiday in California paid by Lord Sainsbury.

https://members.parliament.uk/member/4505/registeredinterests

Small fry to Farage's work and freebies.

From that link where is the 100k for external work? I can see where companies have funded secondees to work with him (c72k) amongst other donations declared.

The 10k 'holiday' appears to have been a work trip

 

[Hiheidi]

Making inappropriate comments on WhatsApp (or social media in general) is issue we as a society need to be constantly reminding our kids not to do. It will bite you in the arse.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Seems like some Tory MPs are going to get the same treatment this week

Wonderful when this happens to any Parties MPs.

Scumbags

 

[superseagull1994]

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Would love for this to get Streeting out, but rat boy is pretty much untouchable

 

[jcdenton08]

Making inappropriate comments on WhatsApp (or social media in general) is issue we as a society need to be constantly reminding our kids not to do. It will bite you in the arse.

True, but these are grown adults. MP’s, elected to represent their communities, not hormonal teenagers

 

[Bodian]

There must be a demand for them though.

In the 'If you build it, they will come' sense. Yes.

But they are not 'needed'. That is - the buyers of the four bedroom executive homes are not currently living in bedsits or sharing houses and so on. And quite a few go as second homes.

If you have ice creams for sale, they will go - so there is a demand. But we don't 'need' to eat ice creams really.

 

[Bodian]

That is the bank of england rate, not the same as mortgage rates which have gone up the last 3 months

Yes - but your post I was responding to didn't mention mortgage rates.

However.....

Will mortgage rates fall this year?

Mortgage rates have started to tumble following a widely-expected cut to the Bank of England base rate. Whether you're buying a home, remortgaging or a buy-to-let landlord, we look at the outlook for mortgage rates this year

moneyweek.com

 

[Bodian]

That is the bank of england rate, not the same as mortgage rates which have gone up the last 3 months

Beginning.

Boost for UK borrowers as Santander ‘fires starting gun’ on mortgage price war

Bank to offer first two-year deal under 4% with rivals likely to follow suit

www.theguardian.com

 

[LamieRobertson]

Would love for this to get Streeting out, but rat boy is pretty much untouchable

Hang on are you saying Streeting is identifying as a rat
…wonder if the llama will mind

 

[seagullwedgee]

My beef is the sheer number of MPs. The USA has 100 Senators for 330 million people, so 3.3 million people per Senator, on average. We have 650 MPs for 65 million people, so 100,000 people per MP. Why do need 33 times as many highly paid politicians as the USA does? If we reduced the number from 650 to 250, and still paid them £90kpa, that would save a colossal amount of money, and reduce all sorts of other costs like second homes, travel, security costs etc.

 

[Chicken Run]

My beef is the sheer number of MPs. The USA has 100 Senators for 330 million people, so 3.3 million people per Senator, on average. We have 650 MPs for 65 million people, so 100,000 people per MP. Why do need 33 times as many highly paid politicians as the USA does? If we reduced the number from 650 to 250, and still paid them £90kpa, that would save a colossal amount of money, and reduce all sorts of other costs like second homes, travel, security costs etc.

One flaw in your plan for 250 MP’s is at the current rate there wouldn’t be many left if they continue to behave like tools

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My beef is the sheer number of MPs. The USA has 100 Senators for 330 million people, so 3.3 million people per Senator, on average. We have 650 MPs for 65 million people, so 100,000 people per MP. Why do need 33 times as many highly paid politicians as the USA does? If we reduced the number from 650 to 250, and still paid them £90kpa, that would save a colossal amount of money, and reduce all sorts of other costs like second homes, travel, security costs etc.

Wait til you find out there are over 800 in the House of Lords.

 

[fly high]

Wait til you find out there are over 800 in the House of Lords.

It's a sick joke all the parties just keep adding to that number.

 

[superseagull1994]

Hang on are you saying Streeting is identifying as a rat
…wonder if the llama will mind

Nope I'm calling him a rat because it was nicer than many of the other things I could call him, the f***ing tosser.

 

[Springal]

Nope I'm calling him a rat because it was nicer than many of the other things I could call him, the f***ing tosser.

you should hear what he said about your mum

 

[banjo]

Wait til you find out there are over 800 in the House of Lords.

 

[Commander]

My beef is the sheer number of MPs. The USA has 100 Senators for 330 million people, so 3.3 million people per Senator, on average. We have 650 MPs for 65 million people, so 100,000 people per MP. Why do need 33 times as many highly paid politicians as the USA does? If we reduced the number from 650 to 250, and still paid them £90kpa, that would save a colossal amount of money, and reduce all sorts of other costs like second homes, travel, security costs etc.

Or better still, reduce the number as you say, but pay serious money for serious quality that are held to incredibly high standards. Actually get our best and brightest going in to politics instead of limited and middle of the road talent.

 

[Simster]

Or better still, reduce the number as you say, but pay serious money for serious quality that are held to incredibly high standards. Actually get our best and brightest going in to politics instead of limited and middle of the road talent.

I don't think it would magically lift the quality of our MPs, tbh, but it would mean that more people would consider a career in politics that currently don't because the money isn't all that high.

I mean do you honestly think we'd see the back of Lee Anderson or that WhatsApp idiot or other hard of thinking MPs, simply by doubling his pay?