Sinnfein Mps Paid?

[Bert45]

Are Sinn Fein Mps paid? I heard that the members of Stormont are paid, even though they've not done a day's work for three years.

[emmie]

as far as I am aware Yes.

[brainiac]

They get expenses only:
https://fullfact.org/news/sinn-fein-salaries/

[emmie]

https://fullfact.org/news/sinn-fein-salaries/

[dannyk13]

No, they only get expenses.
https://fullfact.org/news/sinn-fein-salaries/

[emmie]

expenses only according to the links provided

[steg]

no

[gollob]

How can they get expenses only if they do not travel anywhere

[Bert45]

I see they get expenses amounting to £106,000, which includes hotels in London. How can hotels in London be legitimate expenses if they do not take their seats in Parliament?

[Jackdaw33]

They can't draw a salary unless they take the oath.

[brainiac]

What I'm wondering is where are all the many new MPs, a lot of them from Scotland and the north of England, staying when they're in London attending parliament. They were only elected last Thursday, so can't have managed to rent flats or apartments, and I'm sure expenses don't run to hotels.

[albaqwerty]

found this quite informative


https://www.mpsexpenses.info/#!/mp/839

[Peter Pedant]

they wont take the oath ( of allegiance) nor affirm (allegiance)

they wont do this as it shows 'surrender' - er a bit nineteenth century if you ask me but jacob Rees Mogg is stuck in the eighteenth so there you are

now 1870-1900, a few MPs refused to swear on religious grounds (such as they wouldnt wish to be associated with the adulterers perjurers and liars who did) - and were chucked out !

I think the courts go involved on the grounds that proceedings in the House were not reviewable but this was not a proceeding but an expulsion

(where have you recently heard THAT argument)

blah de blah more words - more illogic worse even readers than the rubbish you read on a daily basis on dear old AB
Gladstone comes out badly - leave to a vote in the commons and they refect for a third time

someone comes up with - a by election is unlawful as there is no vacancy altho the commons has declared there is, because it cant do something like that

AND SO
when the sinn feiners came up with this little wheeze - - they were ready for them (!) and they said that they were elected and they had constituents business to pursue at an official level. so going back to their bog or pub in oireland and sulking ( said the Brit civil servants) were not in their voters interests, and would they co operate ?

you will note that the gentleman in a morning suit in Whitehall seemed to care for a few tow haired irish sorry oirish farmers shepherd and smugglers than their so called representatives did.

so a compromised was hammered out where they show their doo-dahs and are allowed in and can write commons letters and blah de blah

and the rest is history - see above

And if you questions was - I dont think Irish MPs should be paid do you? then why not come out with it

[Zacs-Master]

Apparently, the Irish parliament recently spent €808,000 on a new printer, and when they discovered it didn’t fit they spent another €236,000 moving walls and reinforcing the building. It remains unused as staff refuse to operate it without a pay rise.