10-12-2013, 10:33 AM
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Ah but, Bruce, if you applied your logic to all jobs, then you would give the position to the applicant who would do it for the least pay.Uncle Joe... sorry but due to cutbacks, the tank is in a museum and anyway at current prices, we couldn't afford the fuel!
10-12-2013, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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Ah but, Bruce, if you applied your logic to all jobs, then you would give the position to the applicant who would do it for the least pay.Uncle Joe... sorry but due to cutbacks, the tank is in a museum and anyway at current prices, we couldn't afford the fuel!
George matey, the Tank doesn't need to be driveable, merely that the gun works. It can carried to the required destination (south side of the Thames opposite the Palace of Westminster).
Alternatively all we need do is put a 'live' round up the spout of the forward gun turret of HMS Belfast - because of the twists and turns of the Thames, its actually pointing directly at Parliament.
10-12-2013, 12:05 PM
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I truly think the more we pay them the less diverse the pool we pick our MPs from. If we kept their pay at the point their constituents are paid at would make them far more representative of us all and we would see people from lower waged jobs applying much more to be one.10-12-2013, 02:51 PM
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First of all, I don't think that most MP are corrupt or fiddle their expenses. I'm sure that many work hard, long hours in the interests of their constituents.If we take the lower house in the various bicameral system as the equivalent of Britain’s House of Commons, it appears that Britain has the fourth highest ratio of voters to politicians of our 17 countries, with about 97,000 people for one MP.
If you want to attract the best people, you have to pay the going rate.
Also if you compare the ratio of MP salary to the average ....
In Britain a backbench MP gets about 2.25 times the average full-time wage, only the 13th biggest ratio out of the 17 countries.
So, I don't think that our MPs get as good a deal as most European ones. Not everyone receives a fair wage, but that doesn't mean that MPs shouldn't.
10-12-2013, 02:55 PM
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Given the class that most of them come from, I would have thought that income took second place to prestige and power to be honest. To the average person on the street, not from a privileged background, £70,000+ would seem like a dream salary.As I have said: it should be performance related and if it was, then maybe they'd do more for society, ergo they'd earn more money and then everyone would be happy.
11-12-2013, 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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Ah but, Bruce, if you applied your logic to all jobs, then you would give the position to the applicant who would do it for the least pay.
That is not my logic it is the logic of the people who's pay we are discussing. It is the ideology of market driven supply and demand which the tories in particular are a great fan of (except when applied to their own wages).
12-12-2013, 02:21 PM
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Typically my MP hasn't commented but is your MP taking the 11% ? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...-pay-hike.html|
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