New scheme for MP's allowances announced

[Russ]

So....not quite so easy then?

[j52c]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Well as they have a free vote each time to decide their own wages I don't suppose there will be much to stop them going for as high a raise as they can persuade other MPs to vote for.

Hasn't this, or isn't it going to be stopped in the very near future where they decide and vote on their rise, I seem to have read something sometime ago about this.

Even so you can bet they will get a substantial 4 figure rise before very long.

Originally Posted by Russ

So....not quite so easy then?

Sorry if I caused confusion Russ, I should have made it clear that the easy bit is delivery to the target.... Basically you just sail up or down the Thames with a boat full of explosives. Really now need for me to have gotten vaguely technical about the making of said device.

[Russ]

So the House isn't really an easy target, but it IS a target. Do we really want to give the nutters another one?

Originally Posted by j52c

Hasn't this, or isn't it going to be stopped in the very near future where they decide and vote on their rise, I seem to have read something sometime ago about this.

Even so you can bet they will get a substantial 4 figure rise before very long.

Not according to this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...e-mps-pay-rise

[ntluser]

To be honest, I think that, given the state of the country, the MPs do not deserve the payrise which they have been angling for.

There are lots of people doing a good job who do not get half the perks or pay our MPs get, nor do they try to fiddle their expenses at the expense of the taxpayer.

Our MPs think that they are better than the rest of us and deserve a first class elitist lifestyle at our expense. It's time that they learned to live within their means like we have to do.

Interesting that while other people's pay is being frozen or cut, they want a £1000 pay rise. They seem to forget that the parlous state of the country occurred on their watch as a result of decisions they made.

There are lots of ways to improve this country but strangely the ideas are coming from members of the public rather than from the MPs who are paid handsomely to do that. If we had a system of payment by results the MPs would be paying us.

Given that Sir Ian Kennedy seems to be watering down the original proposals I imagine that this new scheme will be full of exploitable loopholes of which MPs can take advantage.

Only time and parliamentary whistleblowers will tell.

[Mick Fisher]

Originally Posted by ntluser

To be honest, I think that, given the state of the country, the MPs do not deserve the payrise which they have been angling for.

There are lots of people doing a good job who do not get half the perks or pay our MPs get, nor do they try to fiddle their expenses at the expense of the taxpayer.

Our MPs think that they are better than the rest of us and deserve a first class elitist lifestyle at our expense. It's time that they learned to live within their means like we have to do.

Interesting that while other people's pay is being frozen or cut, they want a £1000 pay rise. They seem to forget that the parlous state of the country occurred on their watch as a result of decisions they made.

There are lots of ways to improve this country but strangely the ideas are coming from members of the public rather than from the MPs who are paid handsomely to do that. If we had a system of payment by results the MPs would be paying us.

Given that Sir Ian Kennedy seems to be watering down the original proposals I imagine that this new scheme will be full of exploitable loopholes of which MPs can take advantage.

Only time and parliamentary whistleblowers will tell.

Agreed.