MPs’ pay set to increase 2.8% to £93,904 in April
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07krpmlnv8o
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MPs’ pay set to increase 2.8% to £93,904 in April
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07krpmlnv8o
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For what they do, I would be fine with this, if they just banned second jobs to reduce dodgy activity.
I’d be fine with this if we actually got something out of our mps.
They should be paid a lot more and be banned from having second jobs.
Nobody who wants a decent career is settling for £93k for the level of responsibility that comes with being an MP. You end up with posh boys or the under qualified.
Christ.
There are people at work that earn more than that sitting at a desk munching on mars bars , send an email every now and again.
2.8 is fine.
2.8% is what Reeves has said they’re set to offer the public sector. Nice to see their rise aligned with that for once instead of outstripping it by several % as usual.
the bots in this post saying that £93k a year to do fuck all but argue like school boys is fine…
I have no issue MPs earning that much. It could be 50% higher and I would still have no problem. I don’t agree that they can also earn income from other jobs on top of their MP salary. They should work for us, period.
I used to get paid more than that to make PowerPoints telling clients things they already knew and recommending actions they already wanted to enact.
We need to pay our public servants appropriately, whilst also expecting more from them and holding them to account a lot more effectively.
And perhaps we need fewer of them. Does the Isle of Wight really need two MPs, for example? Are the needs of Chelsea and Fulham really that distinct from the needs of Kensington and Bayswater?
On the one hand I understand what the other comments are saying a higher wage should attract more qualified people etc.
On the other this is going on while the same government is planning huge and disastrous cuts to disability benefits, making this feel like they are taking from the most vulnerable members of society and giving it to themselves
I’d rather have someone less qualified who’s doing an MPs job because they care for the public & at least trying to improve the country than pay for the cleverest or best MPs, who’s only goal is to benefit themselves or their rich mates & don’t care about improving things for everyone. Most wealthy MPs only do it for the contacts they make they couldn’t care less about actually serving the public of this country, unfortunately.
Well below inflation and in line with what everyone else in the public sector are getting.
Bare in mind they they can (and do) claim expenses for pretty much anything so almost all of that 93 grand is pocket money.
2nd homes (can rent out your own home then live in one the taxpayer pays for, what a wizard lark), travel (1st class everywhere, helicopters or armed forces if you’re cabinet), food (free food and booze in westminster), spouse/children’s salary if you hire them as your team…..the gravy train is full steam ahead!
The pay is scandalously low
As a country we’ve got a genuine crabs in a bucket mentality r.e. salaries. It’s an incredibly important job with huge consequences for the country (and to a degree, the world).
Much harsher rules on no lobbying jobs in the 5 years after being an MP, no gifts, but double the salary to £180K
They run the UK, not a large secondary school
Some years, the equivalent headline is almost justifiable as outrage bait, but no-one should be complaining about critical public sector workers getting a 3% pay rise.
I know it ain’t a lot but like why? They should get paid decent that’s it. They already have an allowance which most MPs abuse and have second jobs as well.
I would bump them to probably 200k
But then any form of second job or corruption would be met with 100% prison sentence and a very long one at that.
I would make a lot of the rules simpler as well for having gifts or any of that nonsense so it’s all clear
Paying attractive salaries to public servants reduces the chances of them taking bribes, this has been studied extensively and confirmed to be true across multiple countries. There’ll always be those who will take bribes anyway out of greed, but they’re outliers. A very good salary like this is actually in the national interest.