09-03-2020, 12:58 PM
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MPs Pay Rise
The increase in MP's wages seems to have gone uncommented on this site.They are to get an inflation-busting pay rise of 3.8% which is an increase of £2500, taking their annual salary to £82000 p.a. This flies in the face of the poorest workers whose income has dropped 4.3% in real terms because of inflation.
This is an automatic pay rise as set out and agreed with IPSA in 2015 supposedly to keep MPs wages in line with public worker salaries.
Obscene, especially when most, if not all of them have other incomes besides.
https://www.rt.com/uk/482413-mps-salary-rise-backlash/
09-03-2020, 01:14 PM
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Re: MPs Pay Rise
Originally Posted by Judd
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The increase in MP's wages seems to have gone uncommented on this site. They are to get an inflation-busting pay rise of 3.8% which is an increase of £2500, taking their annual salary to £82000 p.a. This flies in the face of the poorest workers whose income has dropped 4.3% in real terms because of inflation.
This is an automatic pay rise as set out and agreed with IPSA in 2015 supposedly to keep MPs wages in line with public worker salaries.
Obscene, especially when most, if not all of them have other incomes besides.
https://www.rt.com/uk/482413-mps-salary-rise-backlash/
I believe it is correct to say that the basic State Pension is now £168 a week. That makes the MPs pay rise, just the pay rise itself, 29% of the weekly amount a pensioner can claim. Something wrong somewhere?
*Another increase for MPs, in addition to their pay rise, towards staffing costs. This one also seems to have been kept quiet I reckon.
"The UK's 650 MPs will each receive more than £25,000 extra towards their staffing costs, with cash specifically for training, welfare and security.
The £19.7m increase - equivalent to a 13% year-on-year rise in staffing budgets - was approved by a committee headed by the Speaker on Tuesday."
*https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51727638
09-03-2020, 07:30 PM
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Re: MPs Pay Rise
Originally Posted by Roxy
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So fed up with MPs these days Judd, a bunch of self serving, lying, twisted Scunners. All with their noses firmly stuck in the goodies trough, as far as they can get them. They just disgust me with their antics and now this.
09-03-2020, 07:52 PM
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Re: MPs Pay Rise
The thing is, there has always been a salary imbalance between the classes and even much so when it's between the public and private sector.Take the PM's salary (always based on the job position and not the person in office) which i believe is currently £153,000. Now in the private sector, there are thousands upon thousands of senior managers and company directors who earn way way more for doing a lot less and having the responsibility of a much smaller workforce.
I can understand the frustration people have over MP's salaries but it is much much worse in the private sector. Senior managers and directors who are totally incompetent but are complete 'YES' people and they are persistently rewarded for doing a bad job. Just look at how many companies have gone under but the senior management and directors still come out of it ok due to the clauses that was agreed to at the time in their employment contracts.
Yes MP's get a lot of stick BUT it's about time the public focused their attention towards the private sector because their are thousands more bad apples in the private sectors than there ever is in government.
10-03-2020, 02:45 AM
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Re: MPs Pay Rise
The arguments put forward for this pay rise include "attract and retain" appropriate people. I cannot recall there being a shortage of people willing to try their luck, nor can I recall the number of MP's who have jacked the job in mid-contract(term) to take up or return to more lucrative jobs.I can recall the larger number who jump ship mid contract to alternative parties while keeping their salaries and benefits while betraying their "employers" (ie the local electorate).
Meanwhile, over 30% of newly qualified teachers quit their jobs and find alternative employment within 5 years of starting their contracts. And yet they are not awarded anything like the MP's annual increment to entice and retain them.
Some disparity here!
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