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?
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.
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.
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"
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.
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 !
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 :-)
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