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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Quite right. The USA gets by with 435 in the house of representitives, their equivelent to the commons and only 100 in the Senate their second chamber equivelent to the lords. This for a population many times greater than that of the UK.
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Fewer MPs could be paid more individually and remove the second jobs. |
As Hugh pointed out the House of Representatives doesn't have the local attachment that MPs do. Your MP covers a fraction of the area a congressman would in the States.
We could still pay MPs more. Budget wise the numbers are nothing. We don't do it because of the perception more than anything else.