Jackqui Smith Down

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/index.php

Check up on how often the person standing in your constituency has
vote with or against the whip.

 

Now you're trolling.

For the demands placed on an MP, it's nowhere near enough. I wouldn't
do it for that money, and I doubt you would too.

 

Indeed. It's a take-home of about £3500 per month.

A payment of £2000 per month would get you a mortgage of about
£350,000. Plenty sufficient to buy a house, particularly if you have
some equity already. £1500 left over per month is a comfortable
living.

 

hahahah.

Our monthly food/drink budget is around £1200/month alone.

 

Yes, but this is *you*.

I expect *most* families *could* live fairly comfortably on £1500/month.

FWIW, P & I put £500/month each into the joint account and that more
than pays for our outgoings. And yes, I do realise that you have
sprogs to feed.

 

What if you were working 12 hour shifts in a factory for ?6/hour? Or
doing the night shift stacking shelves at Asda?

I'm fairly sure there are many thousands of people who would happily do
an MP's job for less than 60k.

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Quite. The "I wouldn't do it for that money" lot are comfortably in
the top 99% of earners as shown in that "Where Do You Fit" in website
IWHT.

 

To be blunt, if you're working 12 hour shifts in a factory, you've not
got the skills to be an MP

 

It was only 97% for me!

 

What skills does one need?

 

"Being an MP is a vast subsidized ego-trip. It's a job that needs no
qualifications, it has no compulsory hours of work, no performance
standards, and provides a warm room, a telephone and subsidized meals to a
bunch of self-important windbags and busybodies who suddenly find people
taking them seriously because they've go the letters 'MP' after the their
name."

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

of course - I wouldn't want to presume to speak for anyone else.

Well, we certainly used to. But we're talking about MPs here - how
many of them live in cheap houses, and are frugal with their
outgoings, do you think? And why should they?

well, you either live somewhere much cheaper than I do, or have a very
large amount of equity or no mortgage. Our fixed monthly outgoings
inc. mortgage, council tax, utilities etc. are easily >2.5K.

well, yeah. Plus I drink a **** load of champagne ;-)

 

*ding*

for some reason the "60K is more than enough" brigade seem to be under
the impression that being an MP would be a piece of piss.

 

now *you're* trolling, trollen.

 

Massively sweeping & somewhat snobby generalisation, & completely wrong
imo.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

See below.

Yes, but Ben originally posted £1500 *after* outgoings so that's
irrelevant.

Hence the first comment in my reply.

 

I'm confused now, and reading back up the thread doesn't help much.

Are you saying that those that make more use of the service should pay
more? So those with no kids wouldn't need to pay for education?

 

Or, presumably, Foreign Secretary:

At the age of eleven he went to work as a labourer, then as a truck
driver in Bristol,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bevin

or Health Secretary:

One of ten children, Bevan did poorly at school and his academic
performance was so bad that his headmaster made him repeat a
year. At age 13, Bevan left school and began working in the local
Tytryst Colliery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

or founder of the Labour party:

Hardie grew up in poverty. From the age of eight, Keir was a
delivery boy for a baker. At the time he was the only wage-earner in
his family. He was fired from this job because he arrived late to
work, after looking after his sick mother. With no family income,
the Hardies had to move back to Lanarkshire. From the age of 11,
Hardie was working down the pits of Lanarkshire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie

or TD and member of the Moscow Soviet:

At the age of fourteen, after the death of his father, he was
apprenticed to the firm his father had worked for but was dismissed
after two years. He was unemployed for a time and then worked as a
seaman and docker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Larkin

 

So how does charging more to a higher earner make it any fairer then?
Still can't decide not to take the service.

 

I actually have no problem with that.