In what is possibly the most flagrant two fingers to public opinion since the last time MPs gave themselves a pay-rise, Westminster’s cash-guzzlers want to up their pay to almost £100,000-a-year. That’s despite a ComRes poll for IPSA finding that two thirds of the public already think MPs’ pay is too high, with one in three saying it is “much too high”. But then public opinion has never been particularly high up their agenda. We are the 66%…
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Nigel Farage hits the nail on the head:
“This olive oil ban was virgin on the ridiculous.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
They are worth all those zeros
I would like to reassure you that I did not ask for this excessive £100,000 pay rise.
I felt at a time of austerity £99,995 would be more appropriate.
I commend this measure to the House.
Where’s my fucking compo! I’m a victim!
And how much do the your expenses get cut by or do they rise inline with South American inflation rate ?
We’re all in it together!
OK, pay them a hundred grand – but no more allowances, travel vouchers, second home allowances, subsidised nosheries/bars etc on HoC premises. Do all that and you can also clear out a few hundred hangers on, all also on the public pay roll.
Mitsubishi Zeros, perhaps? On their tails, all guns firing?
Cheeky greedy fuckers
We are worth more than £100,000 a year, should be able to have as many other jobs that we can get, employ and overpay our wives for doing nothing, and travel extensively abroad at taxpayer’s expense, having sex with young girls. It is our right. I posted this on my free iPad that you mug taxpayers bought for me. Boaz.
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/handycock-rides-gravy-train.html
You are a credit , shining light and an example to us all Handy. Thank goodness there are men of your calibre, integrity and courage still around in the Houses of Parliament.
I don’t have a problem with Starbucks
In a statement last night, Starbucks said: “We have paid and will continue to pay our fair share of taxes in full compliance with all UK tax laws, as we always have done.
“There has been no suggestion by any authority that we are anything but compliant and good taxpayers.”
It’ll be difficult for the occupy movement and the fair tax lefties to trash Starbucks, given they’ll have nowhere to go to mooch free wifi for their iphones…
Starbuck’s wifi ain’t free.
At least it wasn’t in my local Starbies.
Bring back the Lloyds Corner Houses of my youth!
oops. spelling… should be Joe Lyons (of course)
I gave everything to charity, raised £40 millions for good causes and when I died, everything was sold and given to various charities.
That twat Miliband (£5million property portfolio) wants an inquiry into why no inquiry took place.
Thieves.
This just shows how totally ignorant of public opinion these imbeciles are. Or alternativly how thick skinned and self centred they are. Or probabley both!!!
A lot of these people believe themselves members of a new, 21st Century aristocracy and are expecting any residual democratic accountability to wither away in time.
Pay them 100,000 a year by all means. And offer to up that to 1,000,000 a year on the proviso that they never show up and they never vote.
650 million quid a year. Sounds like a lot but it’s an absolute bargain.
From 2001 to 2010 the Maximum Imbecile trebled the national debt and gave us a 180bn quid annual deficit. The deepest recession in history and spending commitments that will more than double the national debt before/if we ever get it under control.
Now, if the incompetent c*unt had simply sat at home then none of this would have happened.
The problem we have is that the incompetent arseholes are running about, trying to look busy, passing legislation, making insane spending decisions. In politics less is more. Look at the serenity of Ken Clarke as chancellor compared to the frantic 24/7 idiocy of Brown.
Leave their pay as it is now and reduce it every year by the rate of inflation.
I have 3 other jobs + expenses, millions in the bank.
So fuck off you pleb
But why are they paid anyway?
They are all volunteers and get more than adequate expenses. It’s not as if there is a shortage of wannabe MPs.
2012 greediest MP, Lib dumbs Greg Mulholland.
http://tinyurl.com/cmh4tr6
and many of them have “independent means” and, even if they don’t, as if by magic, those “independent means” soon arrive. Abracadabra? Or something …..
Give them £100,000pa by all means but insist on two terms. They attend the HoP for every sitting or forfeit a given sum for each sitting missed. and they get no expenses for anything including running their personal offices. All has to come out of that £100k.
Wrong way round Nell.
Pay them nothing but give them an extra 1,000 quid a day if they stay away from parliament.
MMmmm. No new laws. No new idiocies. Imagine.
Offer £100,000. It is to be adjusted downwards by the same rate as government expenditure increases or upwards by the same rate as government expenditure decreases. The assessment of what does, or does not, constitute expenditure should be subject to a free poll of order-order.com posters.
Better still – freeze the HoC budget for 5 years and if they can’t manage on that then get rid of some seats until they can.
Ring any bells?
STOP THEM HAVING MORE THAN THE ONE JOB WE PAY THEM FOR AND PAY THEM PRO RATA BY MAKING THE C*NTS CLOCK IN AND OUT
First sentence of the piece you link to:
“A major review of MPs’ perks by the independent parliamentary standards authority raised the prospect of linking pay to earnings, rather than have it voted on by the Commons every year.”
By the INDEPENDENT authority. Not by MPs. MPs are many things, but they’re not stupid enough to advocate for or give themselves a massive pay rise.
Independent – hahahahahahahahahhahahahahaa nest joke i’ve ever seen on this site.
best not nest – stupid typing.
And what do we get in return for this enormous increase? There are queues of people for every seat, so in theory the salary should be reduced.
IPSA has obviously gone native. It was only a matter of time I suppose.
Yesterday, I heard Cameroon in a report from ‘bonny Scotland’, say how much he ‘respected’ the Scots’ right to have a referendum on independence. Is there any chance of ‘wee Davie’ giving us a chance of a referendum on the proposed increase in MPs’ pay? While he’s about it what happening to the referendum we were promised on EU membership?
What you saw and heard were two traitorous Scots selling England down the river.
Buy shares in fence builders as they are going to be in strong demand ere long.
For a start their hours should be logged. Gordon has a £million flat that was bought for him by the taxpayer just five minutes walk from parliament yet he only turns up for work two afternoons a year.
Two afternoons a year too many.
Imagine if the incompetent c*unt had stayed away from 1997 onwards? The last thing we need are incompetent jackasses like Brown flailing around the corridors of power trying to look busy.
Are MPs still permitted to claim expenses to cover their monthly mortgage payment on flats they’ve purchased in London?
One of the few well-paid, pensionable jobs where there is no requirement to put in any hours at all. So Brown, Miliband and others can spend most of their time swanning around the world filling their own coffers, arrogant useless MP’s like the late Sir Stuart Bell can get away with not holding a surgery for 14 years and virtually living in France, and many more. Make the bastards clock in or otherwise formally account for their time.
OK Give the fxxkers 100 grand, but paid only if they have to clock-in at the HoC and are paid by the hour, flat rate, no overtime.
The idle fat lazy bxstards like Brown would be paid virtually nothing, which is all they are worth.
No expenses or any other payments full stop.
The same for the HoL.
Steady on old boy, next you will want to hang us for accidentally embezzling expenses.
Then draw and quarter you as well. Can’t make my mind up whether to spike your body parts on the HoC railings afterwards or burn them. Which would you prefer?
…..and so pay all of us!
Good to see our so called elected representatives are doing there
up most to ensure the plebs take to the streets & show them what
they really think…….
How about adding up all the MP’s current salary bill then divide it by £100,000 and the answer equates to the number of MP’s we should have. Sack the rest of them and enforce the no outside activities such as lobbying, directorships, legal advice etc etc. After all the bigger constituencies should take up all their time and stop them shagging around. Cost neutral. Sorted.
There’s an arguable case for MPs to be paid more, but there’s no sensible case for allowing them a vote on their own pay.
It should either be set by an independent body (e.g. the high pay commission) or tied to an external comparitor. You could use one of the SCS pay bands, for example, but my preference would be for a fixed multiple of national average salary, say x3.
They are getting bold now. It’s all in yer face. More money for the EU budget; more money for MPs; more money for bailouts; more welfare for foreigners; and so on and so on. They are laughing at everyone, stealing the money left right and centre, because they know (at the moment) that no-one can do fuck all about it.
Agree with other comments. Typical political class posturing and thought processes. No money in the budget.F**k that. Give me 100K anyway.
Let’s figure out what we can afford and employ (I use the word in a very broad sense) as many MPs as that will purchase. If the c**nts want 100K a year,give them the current budget for salaries and let them sort it out. Some would have to go to fund the survivors -welcome to austerity Britain
Same old politico cobblers, ask for a daft pay rise knowing full well you won’t get it but will be offered a close compromise increase.
More Kite flying from the Westminster drones, one might think on current performance a pay cut and increased hours would be far more appropriate.
I forward a proposal of Zero increase reducing 25% annually until they have put right what they have collectively buggered up over the past fifty years!
But but but
Politics of envy
Benefits!
We’re all in this together?
Okay I got nothing
Pay me pro rata. I can change a fiver. Hoots, jings.
MPs aren’t underpaid. The rest of the public sector fatcats: council bosses, quango bosses, PBC bosses etc, have become increasingly *wildly* overpaid over the years while the MPs lagged behind at only slightly overpaid.
Well if this is all correct then the Dishonourable Members of Parliament are even more Dishonourable now, than they were before they were not so Dishonourable as they are now innit!!! The Dishonourable whatsinitforme snouts in the troughers know no shame!