MP's 11% Pay Rise - Stop them now!!!!

compared to the tavesties of the last few years, student fees, ATOS, bedroom tax zero hours conracts etc. etc. they know they can get away with anything. A totally one-sided press doen't help, a totally divided country makes things worse, a public so disgusted with the can of worms that is Westminster then blanket apathy is now endemic.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Skashion said:
Rascal said:
I will not be signing.

MPs should get a bigger pay rise than 11%
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I understand your argument and have argued similar in the past that we need to have very lucrative pension schemes which are dramatically scaled back or cut altogether if a former MP takes a high-paying corporate job. Thinking on it though, I don't think it's enough or even right. We should not have to bribe the powerful into serving the people and powerful and influential MPs can earn more from the private sector than we can ever consider paying them. We can't bribe them into serving the people. We have to change the type of people in the system, we need effectively to rip up the party system entirely and vote not young budding politicians into power but people who've rendered a great service unto their community, I'm talking about the people that get nominated for Pride of Britain awards. Honest, good, hard to corrupt people who've already proven they care more about people than money. Then we need to change the system as well, but it starts there for me.
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Totally agree Skash.
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I also, agree with all of this.
 
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Politicians are shameless, self serving bastards.

Makes me recall when a politician came to our college to give a talk to the students, in the college hall. The engage with politics shite.

She was expecting a passive, polite and largely uninterested audience. And that's what she got.

Albeit, there was a scouse lad who, along with me had been reluctantly dragged in.

I say lad, he was in his thirties.

He was a character though, and he'd heard enough.

It came to the questions. And he just jumps in, both barrels.

Took real exception to her saying her role was unpaid. This was before the expenses scandal.

Told her, that she, and all her colleagues were motivated by serving themselves, their own interests and careers - not the public. Pressed her on how much she earned.

She stuttered and stammered, seemingly surprised by this aggressively vocal, and knowledgable, scouse bloke in a sea of uninterested sixth form students.

Eventually she conceded that she had some form of living expenses paid for by the taxpayer, but kept it all very vague. Tried her best to move on, with old scouse Rob sat beside me ranting at her, everyone looking in our direction, including our tutor, very disapprovingly. Was funny as fuck.

I felt a strange sense of pride and embarrassment. He had it in him to call her out on her bullshit, while most us were apathetic and just waiting to be allowed to leave.

But I digress, they're all cunts. Sorry, a bit hyperbolic, 99.9% of them are.
 
Skashion said:
Rascal said:
I will not be signing.

MPs should get a bigger pay rise than 11%
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I understand your argument and have argued similar in the past that we need to have very lucrative pension schemes which are dramatically scaled back or cut altogether if a former MP takes a high-paying corporate job. Thinking on it though, I don't think it's enough or even right. We should not have to bribe the powerful into serving the people and powerful and influential MPs can earn more from the private sector than we can ever consider paying them. We can't bribe them into serving the people. We have to change the type of people in the system, we need effectively to rip up the party system entirely and vote not young budding politicians into power but people who've rendered a great service unto their community, I'm talking about the people that get nominated for Pride of Britain awards. Honest, good, hard to corrupt people who've already proven they care more about people than money. Then we need to change the system as well, but it starts there for me.
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Skashion said:
Rascal said:
I will not be signing.

MPs should get a bigger pay rise than 11%
Click to expand...
I understand your argument and have argued similar in the past that we need to have very lucrative pension schemes which are dramatically scaled back or cut altogether if a former MP takes a high-paying corporate job. Thinking on it though, I don't think it's enough or even right. We should not have to bribe the powerful into serving the people and powerful and influential MPs can earn more from the private sector than we can ever consider paying them. We can't bribe them into serving the people. We have to change the type of people in the system, we need effectively to rip up the party system entirely and vote not young budding politicians into power but people who've rendered a great service unto their community, I'm talking about the people that get nominated for Pride of Britain awards. Honest, good, hard to corrupt people who've already proven they care more about people than money. Then we need to change the system as well, but it starts there for me.
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George Galloway MP (Respect, Bradford West) said that he was opposed to the recommendation of a 11 per cent pay rise and if given a vote on it “will vote against it”.
 
Markt85 said:
George Galloway MP (Respect, Bradford West) said that he was opposed to the recommendation of a 11 per cent pay rise and if given a vote on it “will vote against it”.
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Who gives a fuck what that cockwomble thinks?
 
Markt85 said:
George Galloway MP (Respect, Bradford West) said that he was opposed to the recommendation of a 11 per cent pay rise and if given a vote on it “will vote against it”.
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the problem is that MP's cannot vote against a recommendation they can only vote for it or the amendments proposed by their own side. Other than that its an abstain.

Reason why George Galloway doesn't (didn't) attend Parliament
 
ban-mcfc said:
Markt85 said:
George Galloway MP (Respect, Bradford West) said that he was opposed to the recommendation of a 11 per cent pay rise and if given a vote on it “will vote against it”.
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Who gives a fuck what that cockwomble thinks?
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Many thousands, especially when he was one of a few MPs to take a stand against the invasion of Iraq
 
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