Do you think

[DrFilth]

paying our mp's a high wage attracts the wrong sort of person for the job ?

[emmie]

At the end of the day their salary isn't that high, considering that many top flight council chiefs get paid double or more, but the biggest problem in politics today is most haven't held down a proper job, go from uni, to politics and nothing in the middle to give you a sense of what life is like outside Westminster

[DrFilth]

from 100 years ago

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[emmie]

i did look but its doesn't change the fact that by and large they are not overpaid. I know expenses added in etc, and the hoohah over that, but thats fiddling and no one should do it. The type you want to attract would not do it, the type we get, its maybe the only job they will ever do. Milliband brothers are a good example, political family, go to uni, then political dogsbody, up the greasy pole, then leader of the party, without so much as a by your leave. How do they know what it is to survive on very little, work in a factory, shop, it doesn't give them a balanced view at all.