BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: Stu
Date: 21 May 09 - 05:50 AM

Tony Benn has long advocated bringing MP's pay structure into the same used for the civil service to ensure they are paid a fair rate.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: Gervase
Date: 21 May 09 - 06:11 AM

As Peter says, £64k isn't huge. I was earning around that some ten years ago, and I had no trouble spending it all and thinking that a bit more wouldn't go amiss. And I fiddled my expenses. I remember making some lame justification that I was doing my bit to stop Lord Rothermere becoming even more obscenely rich, but that was fatuous.*
MPs will probably get parity with head-teachers of large schools and GPs - which will bring them up to around £100k a year.
In my view that is too much, given that the average MP (in my experience) is not the brightest bunny in the hutch, and would struggle to reach the middle ranks of local government and would probably flounder in a larger private sector enterprise.

*These days I get by on considerably less! Last year's turnover on the farm and restoration business may have been around £60k, but the profit was less than £12k, so this is one cat that has become thinner. Happier, too, however.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: akenaton
Date: 21 May 09 - 09:52 AM

Well Don, I did say that everybody in this stinkin' society are on the make "Just waiting for any oppertunity". The point I was making is that a vast number of humans NEVER get any oppertunity and never will! While we let a mad system like capitalism rule the world.

The biggest robbery of our tax pounds and dollars in history has just been perpetrated and we sit around with our fingers up our arses complaining about MPs.

Is it any wonder I'm a miserable "Sod"(a little politically incorrect there Don) :0).

Anyway i'd rather be a miserable "sod" than a stupid one any day.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 21 May 09 - 11:16 AM

"The evidence of this thread is that the danger we face is not from latter-day Hitlers but from the lynch mob."

This scares me far more than anything any bent politician (of an any stripe or political persuasion)could ever do.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 21 May 09 - 04:18 PM

Question time on at an earlier time. The MP's are still defending their position. The claims, "we made mistakes", " the system was at fault".When challenged by Yasmim Alibhai-Brown about why one MP had known the system was bad since 1997, the MP didn't have an answer. Nobody made them claim for duck ponds or avoid capital gains tax. As for hysteria and lynch mob comments. I think you need to see a lynch mob in action. What comments are placed on this site only equate to the anger the population seems to feel. Considering the anger many people feel, most of the comments placed here are restrained.

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 21 May 09 - 04:27 PM

"What comments are placed on this site only equate to the anger (some segments of) the population seems to feel"

Subject: RE: BS: UK Politicians: Noses deep in the trough
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 21 May 09 - 04:32 PM

Yes, Rifleman. I should have said "some". There are some who don't think this is a big deal. I've not met anyone myself and so only spoke for those I knew.