Dissolution Of Parliament

[goodgoalie]

Now Parliament has been dissolved and there are no longer any MPs, only candidates, does that mean those who were MPs now have no salary, or do they continue to be paid till June 8th?

[Jackdaw33]

They will continue to be paid, and for those who lose their seats, for sometime after that.

[goodgoalie]

You mean there's a sort of 'parachute payment' if they get kicked out?

[EDDIE51]

They continue to be paid, just as they are in the summer recess , which is only a few more weeks away. As they still run offices and employ staff they still claim expenses as well as salary.
Any who lose their seats at the election are entitled to a pay off and a pension.

[Buenchico]

From 2015 (but nothing's changed):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32121194/you-no-longer-have-an-mp-but-theyre-still-being-paid

[Jackdaw33]

Yep, 3 months' salary if I remember rightly. Plus pensions, of course, for those over retirement age.

[goodgoalie]

Thanks - it's okay for some!

[Zacs-Master]

You're quite at liberty to stand for election goodgoalie.

[EDDIE51]

Details here
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-3079733/My-local-MP-ousted-general-election-receive-bumper-redundancy-package.html
They get a 'resettlement payment' of up to £33,000 tax free and can get an additional £55,000 as a 'wind up' payment to pay off staff and finish any business that can not be 'handed on' to their successor.
It is not a redundancy payment as the job still exists.

[goodgoalie]

Crivens, thought they got something, but had no idea it was that much. Wonder why it should be tax-free, and what about those not seeking re-election?

[Jackdaw33]

Wullie, get off yer bucket and go and see Wee Nicky. She'll find you a seat.

[goodgoalie]

Aye, no a bad idea

[Old_Geezer]

I'd compare it to your employer insisting you all go on some daft team building exercise (presumably in an effort to destroy team spirit) for a while. In that case you'd still expect to get paid for the duration.

[Peter Pedant]

parachute payment ?

well it is a cut-throat market out there

yes unreturned MPs get a £20 000 hand out
and an early pension on the grounds that once you have been an MP no one wants you for anything else
[Gideon obviously an exception to the rule]
[ palace foot men ( = make servants) used in the earlier part of the last century labour under similar disabilities - you could get anyone to work ( as a servant) if they had been employed at the Palace)

No I havent looked any of this up
this is after all AB ( anything goes a lot of the time)
and if it is wrong I will just say "that was an AB alternative fact"

[ichkeria]

Even tho parliament is dissolved they are still MPs.

[Peter Pedant]

damn
male not make
couldnt get anyone to work instead of could get s/o to work

sozza in too much of a hurry to submit before the site crashed

[Peter Pedant]

// Even tho parliament is dissolved they are still MPs. //
for some purposes

immunity from civil suit to and fro their constituencies fr'instance

[ichkeria]

It certainly isn't a job I fancy. Reviled by the general public until someone wants something. Depending on the constituency (and the whim of your party) little job security.

[Peter Pedant]

oh come on itchy

troop into the correct lobby for 20 years and you get a sir-ship
do it more often and longer - and there's a place in the House of Lords (£300/d no receipted expenses !!) awaiting YOU !

[ichkeria]

20 years doesn't happen to everyone Peter and not all MPs are lobby fodder
There's Nigel Jones slashed with a samurai sword for his pains while his collegaue is murdered, Jo Cox, Robert Bradford, Ian Gow, Airey Neave etc etc
Not everyone goes on to stardom on Strictly or Great Train Journeys :-)

[ichkeria]

Mind you as I write this I can hear the Hon Sir Toady Lickspittle of Toryshire Central piping up at PMQ: "Would not the Prime Minister agree with me that she is looking particularly foxy today in those shoes, all the better to win an election while those German EU Fokkas buzz our shores ..." etc etc