MPs call for '32% salary increase'

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Members said they deserved an £86,250 salary in an anonymous survey conducted by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).

The research also found more than a third think they should keep final salary pensions.

The findings emerged as Ipsa published a report on its initial consultation into pay and pensions.

The Commons voted against a 1% pay rise in 2011 and, last year, agreed to extend the pay freeze into 2013.

But the survey found that 69% thought they were underpaid on their current salary of £65,738.

The average level suggested for the appropriate level of pay was £86,250.

Conservative MPs were the most likely to believe they were underpaid, according to the results.

On average, Tories said their salary should be £96,740, while Lib Dems thought the right amount was £78,361 and Labour £77,322. Other parties put the figure at £75,091.

A fifth of those questioned said they should be paid £95,000 or more.

So where is the angry mob starting?

 

[ElliorR]

Pay them 100k but no expenses what so ever.

 

[Biohazard]

Pay them 100k but no expenses what so ever.

Apart from a travel subsistence rate for those outwith the South East. Build accomodation for those who will need it.

 

[arknor]

pay them 100k no expenses but give them a free bus pass

 

[diamount]

Have the people who voted them in have say if they deserve the pay increase.

 

[aln]

Apart from a travel subsistence rate for those outwith the South East. Build accomodation for those who will need it.

Screw that. Move parliament to the centre of the UK. Sell off expensive London real estate. Done deal.

 

[Mickie]

greed

 

[pingwing]

Rabble rabble rabble!

Oddly their pay hasn't changed in about 15 years (something like that) so in a way it should have risen (plus the good ones work a 60 hour week and the PM works something closer to 80, figures from A-Level politics 7 years ago).

On the other hand real world wages haven't risen so RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.

Plus the expenses thing has basically meant that the 65k has been mostly take home (unlike average joe who spends most their money on living).

Therefore they can have 70k a year but only expenses for office supplies and travel too and from work (up too £100 a week for those within say 75 miles of the capital, £200 covering the rest of England and Wales, £250 covering everyone else). Then we will see which one wants to be MP and which one wants an easy salary.

Plus build them a gay Butlins style holiday compound in the empty offices of the Gherkin for the ones that want a place to stay in the city. That'll fix everything.

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

My view is we need to look at the system. Increase their basic salary, but modify the expenses system so it is reinbursing their costs and nothing more.

From then on their salaries need to track an average of other public sector salaries.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

So really MPs haven't called for a 32% pay rise, they just think they deserve to be paid more. Who doesn't?

 

[arknor]

So really MPs haven't called for a 32% pay rise, they just think they deserve to be paid more. Who doesn't?

people who do a job because its a job they like and its worth doing? they also get to build a nice contacts database which the majority of them appear to use to ones advantage.

let the ones who do it purely for money change line of work like your average joe would.

leave politics to the MP's that actually want to do the job

 

[MagicBoy]

These being the same MPs that have the public sector on a three year pay freeze.

My response is unprintable.

 

[arknor]

These being the same MPs that have the public sector on a three year pay freeze.

My response is unprintable.

how do you expect the country to afford this pay rise and the MP expenses if they dont hit the public sector and the people on benefits hard?

 

[MagicBoy]

LOLarknor

 

[Diagro]

Lol Mp's

 

[arknor]

LOLarknor

I ain't even mad
#non-means tested & tax-free also less dodgy than your average MP!

 

[opstrat]

Do u get a mobility car from that?

 

[arknor]

Do u get a mobility car from?

No if you get a car its taken from your mobility anyway its not an extra benefit ontop.
I think you need the highest rate of mobility for it too
I'm autistic btw

Your probably not allowed to attend ocuk trackdays in a mobility scheme car anyway :|

DLA is the only benefit I do get BTW.

I don't claim JSA or ESA as I do work

 

[opstrat]

I used to calculate retirement pension and pension credit for the social.

We didn't take into account DLA when calculating pension credit. It was probably the. Only decent rule we had.

 

[kwerk]

It sounds fair to me because living in London is really expensive because of all the government workers living there inflating the prices of houses. It's only fair they get a raise.