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They don't run the country ministers do and they.get considerably more

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No MP's have a big part in running the country ,they represent us in Parliament so the ministers know what we want

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Then the government listens to the corporations and whip the MPs.

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so I am free to express my opinion but that does not mean democracy works. We vote for elected representatives but I do not see much representation I just lies to get people to vote for them next time. That imo is not a workign system

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Being an MP must be the best job in the world.
100.00 grand per year for pushing a pen, fly round the world on the taxpayer, expenses from anything from a newspaper to a porno mag to luxury holiday.

And above all free booze, free accommodation and long holidays. And now a super pay rise. And this is all by ticking a box with a cross.

Can't be bad cannot it. Trouble is, there are no vacancies for five years as the job is filed by stipid idiots who think they can rule the world.

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That works out at £800 per week.

welcome to the club Arthur :)

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Lol, they do what there told, ministers would rather listen to lobbyists, party backers, big business, newspapers and their own ideology than listen to what the little people have to say and if they grow a pair and stand up for us not only do they wreck their careers Mr whippy might just get busy on them.

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Which brings it right to the point when in the last few years it has been on the news and in the papers about how MP's are making cut backs and not having a pay rise like the rest of us to help the country out. so while the rest of us are starting to see a 1% increase they make up for all them years lost by 11% increase.

Makes me sick to be honest

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Why do you think they are stupid Arthur? They are in the main ordinary people who put themselves up for election, something that you could have done over the years. But hey oh it's easier to whine and moan about everything and everyone I suppose.

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So you're earning about £28,000 after tax? Way to go Arthur, I'm sure there are many on here who aren't. Yes, I know you're living in London which is a high cost area.

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My wage will stop at the top end next year 17.4k I don't know where they get the average earnings of 20k from

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Time to reform Parliament, I think we should only have 1 MP per county and the heads of every County and Borough Council (at no extra pay) should have more input and report to the MP. This will save tax payers a load of dosh.

As for the MPs pay rise - NO WAY.

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Sounds good to me.

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I don't really understand how they deserve a pay rise, they do less and less work each year thanks to Brussels

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According to the Coalition Agreement, by now we should have been looking forward to a Commons made up of no more than 500 MPs - a reduction of about 150 from today's numbers. Unfortunately, Nick Clegg threw his rattle out of the pram when Lords reform fell through and ensured Commons reform also failed. This despite commons reform being a Lib Dem manifesto pledge in 2010 and a long-standing Lib Dem wish for years even before that.

The Liberal Democrats are duplicitous, cheap-talking opportunists and (horror of horrors) I am beginning to think that single party government is so much more desirable than coalition that a term of a purely Labour administration would be preferable to any government in which any Lib Dem played a part.