Golden goodbye packages for MPs worth £90,000

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....Ps-booted-voters.html

/// The payments are designed to help MPs 'adjust' to life outside the Commons and will be worth up to £33,000 each. Most of the payout is tax-free. They will also qualify for a 'winding up' allowance worth up to £56,250. ///

With more and more Armed Forces personnel facing the sack, shouldn't they also get a £90,000 'resettlement grant to allow them to adjust to life outside the Forces?

[Zeuhl]

^^

L O L Don't even start ...

[jno]

unlike most jobs, parliament comes with the prospect of redundancy built in every few years. In the private sector you're redundant because your employer wants to get rid of you. In parliament it's the public's choice, and I don't see why voters should have to think "But if I vote against him I'll have to pay him to go."

[Zeuhl]

Isn't the public the MP's employer? the public changes it's mind so the MP is made redundant.

As in other jobs, the employer has to consider; 'if i want to get rid of them i'll have to pay them to go'

So it's the same isn't it?

[sp1814]

Serious question - do service men and women get redundancy pay?

[SeaJayPea]

"the public changes it's mind so the MP is made redundant".

Not in most cases he isn't. There are few constituencies that actually change hands at each election. David Cameron's constituency of Witney was created in 1983 and has never returned other than a Tory. The only people who could get rid of Cameron are the local management committee of the Conservative Party.

Likewise, Ed Milliband's constituency of Doncaster North was also created in 1983 and has never returned other than a Labour MP. Again, only the local party could realistically fire him as MP.

And yes, sp1814, Armed services personnel do get redundancy pay. But based on rank, length of service etc.

[anotheoldgit]

How appropriate see the DWP advert on the left.

/// Starting from October 2012, millions of workers will be enrolled into a workplace pension. ///