The Plebs Won't Notice

[Canary42]

Boris today back-tracked on all his anti-sleaze promises - no cap on MP second job earnings or time. Snouts back in the trough chaps - hurrah hurrah.

"The plebs won't notice, I've slipped it in behind the smoke screen of the Ukraine situation"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/opposes-plans-to-limit-mps-earnings-xsw2dk0f5

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/17/plans-to-cap-uk-mps-earnings-from-second-jobs-dropped

https://www.thenational.scot/news/20000090.plans-cap-uk-mps-income-second-jobs-dropped/

[DTCwordfan]

yawn - pay peanuts and get monkeys. Halve the House and double the salaries...why do we need a House bigger than the House of Reps in Washington?

[davebro]

Yes - HoC 400. Reformed (elected) HoL 100. End of!

[bobbinwales]

Applies to all parties though so for example our David (Lammy) can continue his second job which I dont mind as long as he does his MP job well,

[Deskdiary]

Shhhh bobbinwales- that doesn’t fit in with Canary’s narrative. He won’t want to hear that some Labour MPs have other income.

[Peter Pedant]

no the proles were whining up here

we also expect the Garden party report to be buried .... in the back garden

[tomus42]

It's a good time to bury bad news.

[ynnafymmi]

I dont know why the Ed allows other news on here.The Russian invasion of Ukraine must take precedent.The assassination of Putin has to be the lead story.Once Putin is extirpated off the face of the earth,we can get back to domestic politics.But the death of Putin has to come before all else.

[THECORBYLOON]

"the death of Putin has to come before all else."

Really?

[Peter Pedant]

chrissakes crobo
this is not the real world - - - its AB !

[Peter Pedant]

Corbo: dont call me crobo !
sozza sozza - Corbo
Corbo - I am not going to answer now....
Yup this is AB OK !

[dannyk13]

Same diatribe from Canary.

[1ozzy]

Buy a balaclava and a fake passport ynnafymmi.
Do the job yourself, you armchair warrior.

[THECORBYLOON]

I noticed she disregarded her, "death of Putin has to come before all else." campaign to wish the Queen and the Royal family best wishes the other day.

I hope she's not getting distracted from her mission...

[Gromit]

Is anyone surprised that the ban on MPs second jobs has been axed?

We should scrap elected Police Commissioners.
Scrap elected Mayors.
Scrap the House of Lords.
Scrap the UK Parliament.

Introduce devolved English Parliaments in the South East, South West, Midlands and the North.
Introduce a Ministry for The UK to look after all the none devolved jobs like Defence, Trade etc with members co-opted from the devolved Parliaments.

[ToraToraTora]

well I agree with scrapping the lords and elected mayors and police commissioners, we should also scrap all the devolved "Parliaments", last thing we need is another layer of snout in trough politicians. We should reduce the commons to 400 and double their wages but abolish all the non gov business exes. Replace the house of lords with an elected senate of no more than 100.

[ToraToraTora]

....also scrap all the local authorities and replace with proper business management.

[dannyk13]

Agree with TTT at 12.51.

[naomi24]

I wish Canary would stop thinking of himself and everyone who isn't a member of the government as a 'pleb'.

[Kardashev]

I certainly think that we have too many layers of politicians.