Are You Struggling To Make Ends Meet On A Salary Of £82K Plus Expenses?

[Hymie]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10066255/Tory-Sir-Peter-Bottomley-calls-MPs-paid-100-000-year.html

[emmie]

have you actually asked any Hymie....

[Hymie]

I’ll get Boris to announce that this is his top priority.

[emmie]

being facetious doesn't help.

[Hymie]

Why would Boris expect anyone to struggle on an MP’s salary – I can see no valid reason we should not be campaigning for an £82k minimum wage; and even then, those on that minimum wage would be struggling.

[emmie]

long hours, divorce rates high, i can see the problems even if you can't.

[naomi24]

//Strangely, not many MPs share my view.//

Neither do I, hymie. Who's going to pay for it? Will you object when the cost of living goes through the roof because the servers in McDonalds and the shelf-stackers in supermarkets are earning wages that in no way reflect their skills or the responsibilities the job carries?

[Hymie]

Is that the people now - struggling on a minimum wage of less than £20k?

[emmie]

whereas MP's are responsible for making decisions on our behalf, the PM is seriously underpaid.

[Hymie]

Strangely there is no lack of applicants for this seriously underpaid job.

[naomi24]

It's all relative, Make £82,000 the minimum wage and the nurse or the MP will necessarily earn more than that meaning that in reality nothing will change.

[naomi24]

How much do you think MPs should earn, hymie?

[Hymie]

A multiplier on the minimum wage would be a good idea – since it is within the remit of the government to set the minimum wage. I’d expect any MP to be satisfied with double whatever they set the minimum wage at; why as a people’s representative would an MP expect their constituents to live on less than half their salary?

[ToraToraTora]

Its funny that we expect so much from our government and MPs but pay them so little. Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Where I work most common or garden middle managers on more than the PM. Basically we get the people for MPs that can't do better in the private sector. I have always advocated halving their number and doubling their salary.

[Peter Pedant]

erm I know of no MPs who moonlight in McDonalds
but then I live a sheltered life...

just trying to help in a standard spikey AB thread

[Peter Pedant]

// the PM is seriously underpaid.//
yeah but no but

they dont do badly after - Bliar £50m and his son £90m
The boy Mark ( TGL's wayward son) arab cementation contracts

ex PMs with begging bowls, well the well heeled Londoners may have seen them.....

[naomi24]

Hymie, //why as a people’s representative would an MP expect their constituents to live on less than half their salary?//

People doing lesser paid jobs don't necessarily live on half the salary. By the time a higher rate tax is paid, and assuming that most MPs take responsibility for their own lives rather than depend on the perks of social housing and top up benefits, there's not a lot left from £82,000. Yours is the politics of envy. If you want to earn £82,000 why don’t you stand for election?

[Peter Pedant]

// Yours is the politics of envy. If you want to earn £82,000 why don’t you stand for election?//

MPs are paid peanuts and so why dont you stand for being an MP and get paid peanuts? - er normal day on AB then

[naomi24]

PP, do try taking a breath before putting finger to key. Once again you've pounced upon one of my posts - par for the course - without having followed an iota of the conversation. What it is to be popular, eh?

[AuntPG]

Emmie // Doctors get paid more, how is that right.//

Well....doctors do at least 7 years of training to do their job, have to pass exams, and help save lives.

Any Tom Dick or Harriet can become an MP if they are elected and the only skill, they need is the gift of never looking anyone straight in the eye and avoiding answering questions.

Thats why doctors get paid more then MP's.

[Khandro]

In my view, the problem is not the amount of compensation they get for their toils, but the number of MPs, 650 plus 800 in the house of lords, this should be radically reduced.