17-07-2015, 09:21
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Re: MP's Pay
Perhaps my glasses got steamed up this morning Sir. 
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17-07-2015, 13:57
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Re: MP's Pay
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Yes, but it's not in his gift to set the pay rates for MPs no matter how much you may despise him or want to say that he's a hypocrit. It's down to a supposidly independent committe that was set up in the wake of previous pay scandals that were perpetrated by MP's setting their own pay rates.
Don't get me wrong, I think it stinks but that's the way it is at the moment in the absence of a better method like linking MP's pay to a multiple of the average wage for example.
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Absolutely hilarious, except the jokes on us, they get punished for fraudulent expenses claims by getting a big pay rise you couldn't make it up
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17-07-2015, 16:46
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Re: MP's Pay
If you set up an "independent" body then you abide by its ruling. If they were awarded 1% and voted to refuse it everyone would up in arms that they don't follow the ruling. They are awarded a "big" rise, accept it and everyone complains that they do so.
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17-07-2015, 16:58
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Re: MP's Pay
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
If you set up an "independent" body then you abide by its ruling. If they were awarded 1% and voted to refuse it everyone would up in arms that they don't follow the ruling. They are awarded a "big" rise, accept it and everyone complains that they do so.
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And if the same "independent" body were to recommend that frozen public sector pay should increase by 10% would the Government accept that too? Except we'll never find out.
We're all in this together my arse.
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17-07-2015, 17:03
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Re: MP's Pay
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
If you set up an "independent" body then you abide by its ruling. If they were awarded 1% and voted to refuse it everyone would up in arms that they don't follow the ruling. They are awarded a "big" rise, accept it and everyone complains that they do so.
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We've already discussed how independent the panel was and the conclusion I drew was not very
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18-07-2015, 12:40
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Re: MP's Pay
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
We've already discussed how independent the panel was and the conclusion I drew was not very
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IMO it would be naive, to say the least, to reach any other conclusion.
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18-07-2015, 16:25
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Re: MP's Pay
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Originally Posted by Mick Fisher
IMO it would be naive, to say the least, to reach any other conclusion.
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Well according to some a panel of Lords, failed politicians and senior civil servants is independent.
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