Do Mps Deserve A 10 Per Cent Pay Rise?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/11645691/MPs-pay-rise-justified-by-economic-recovery-expenses-watchdog-claims.html

/// Ipsa has published an analysis of "economic indicators" including rising national income, declining inflation, increasing employment and a 3.3 per cent rise in average wages. ///

If the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) deem it necessary to grant the politicians a 10% pay rise, and since every worker and tax payer have been instrumental in making the UK economically healthy, why aren't they entitled to a similar wage rise?

[dannyk13]

No

[bazwillrun]

No

[Ken4155]

NO

[-Talbot-]

Some probably do, many probably don't.

Being an MP is one of those jobs that you can do as little or as much as you like.

[Peter Pedant]

IPSA is run by independent Sir Ian Kennedy who knows who pays HIM !

standard govt ax man who will go after whoever he is told to
except the hand that feeds him


logical really

[ oh,that is long for " I agree with AOG !" ]

[retrocop]

No. A kick in the teeth to the working man/woman. I am miffed at the largesse of the Government's Overseas aid budget when it is clearly abused so I am blowed if I want them to line their own pockets whilst we,the electorate, prop them up.

[Peter Pedant]

Sir Ian's solution to the MPs expenses scandal

if you pay them more - much more actually - then they wont need to diddle their expenses, and it also means you can pay ME much more too !

[Ken4155]

"We're all in this together." Now watch my nose grow longer.

[Old_Geezer]

I tend to have problems justifying any payment. I guess that's not fair, they put effort in, it just seems that it is always towards imposing something I don;t want.

I suspect a 10% rise in light of the rest of us getting nowhere near that, is pushing their luck.

[janbee]

NOOOOOOOO !!

[cazza247]

Love to meet Mr or Mrs average. My last wage rise in April was 2.3% first in 4 years

[ummmm]

Yes.

[bazwillrun]

Theres always one !

[Deskdiary]

Actually there's two.

Yes, I believe they do. I feel our MPs are underpaid.

I always get slightly irritated when a comparison is drawn between MPs salaries and (purely for the sake of the argument) nurses. There are tens of thousands of nurses and 650 odd MPs. you cannot compare a 10% payrise for MPs to, say, a 2% payrise for nurses. Its an utterly pointless and futile comparison.

I'd go further....reduce the number of MPs to, say, 400, pay them £250,000 a year to be 'professional' MPs and therefore no disappearing off to their Inns or Boards.

[anotheoldgit]

Deskdiary

MPs should be paid less, then we will get MPs who are 'in it' for the good of their country, and not for financial gain.

[Deskdiary]

May have been the case in William Pitt's days.....but not now.

[DTCwordfan]

Their salaries should be doubled, their numbers cut in half. It is asinine that there are more MPs than there are Congressmen in the US government.

"Pay peanuts, get monkeys" comes to mind.

Anyway, we'll be shot of 59 of them shortly.