Actually shocked at this...

Hxc said:
That's a really really old article...did you mean to link to it?
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Well I know the article is a bit random but does it matter how old it is? The man who is now our prime minister sold more than half our gold reserves when the price was at a 20 year low and lost us 2 billion in the process. Here's a more recent article. I know this hasn't got anything to do with privileges MPs get but it just makes you wonder what on earth our government is doing.

Energize said:
Would people be in such an uproar if MP's were on 23k more than they are being paid now?
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According to http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/members/pay_mps.cfm they already get £61,820 so yeah I personally would.

Performance related pay would be awesome! I could see some MPs starving awfully fast :D
 
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Meh I'm not really bothered, nothing I can do about it, and it's been like that for years and years. It doesn't really bother me any more. I wouldn't want to be a politician and that would serve as no incentive IMO. Remember there are those that aren't in the limelight who actually do do some good and some work towards the improvement of the country.

I just am completely disaffected by these things now, there are more important issues to me.
 
Now you know why people want to be MP's. Not only can they claim vast amounts of money(salary,allowances and expenses), a gold-plated pension, free travel and jaunts abroad but they can also do their own full time job while they are supposedly an MP. If they do get kicked out they get lots of cash to console themselves.

In the 70's there was a uproar about MP's expenses and they promised to be more accountable. They just carried on as usual.
 
Surely there still some things hidden from this list?

Satsumas - £5.00
Carrier Bags - £0.05
Electrical Flex - £0.20 a metre to a maximum of 3 metres
 
platypus said:
The Lords would stop any excessive pay rise.

The question of MP's expenses has always been a grey area, how they must have hated the FOI act.
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Why did they vote for it if they hated it?

Apparently the MPs didn't have this list until it was released under the FOI i.e. they knew they could claim for a kitchen but didn't know they could claim up to £10k, so most claims were significantly under the values in that list.
 
i think it's disgusting that mps can claim this from tax payers money.

If they need a second home, then they have to bloody pay for it like every normal person in the uk.

something i heard, was that the mp's aim to to make more money out the 'investment' they have with the tax payer subsidised 2nd home.
 
Jeez this thread is filled with annoying posts. I don't think I can even be bothered to structure a counter argument as it's just full of bandwagon jumping.
 
Eriedor said:
Jeez this thread is filled with annoying posts. I don't think I can even be bothered to structure a counter argument as it's just full of bandwagon jumping.
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Please do. If you're able to come up with a valid justification for the existance of the list and the amounts permitted then my opinion is open to change. You might know something the rest of us don't so go ahead and say your bit :)
 
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