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Was that using just your income and 2.5 person occupancy though?

 

It's just skills that most people can learn, the same as any other job.

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Lucky you. Mine is 400 quid. And I'm pretty much on MP money, but
then we're now a single-income household.

 

Oh, OK. Heaven forfend that I should go back and actually re-read your
post prior to (mis)quoting you, eh? )

 

For very spartan values of 'comfortable' perhaps.

 

No, I didn't. £1500 after mortgage. I reckon the rest of the bills
should come in another 500 quid.

 

Oh, is that what he's saying? I guess it was obvious, given the
poster, but I couldn't work it out.

Fucking commie.

 

I suspect Lakshmi Mittal thinks he only *just* lives comfortably too.

 

well, I doubt very much your young child cost as much in terms of food
and drink, (not to mention use of electricity and gas and clothing
requirements) as our two who are about to turn 16 and 20 respectively.

 

Who?

 

That amount keeps me (plus wife and child) in a couple of holidays per
year, two new cars, one new motorbike, a nicely decorated house in a
nice area, satellite tv, eating well, all the toys like media centres
and flat screen TVs.

What else is there other than more/bigger[1] of what I've already got?



[1] Obviously I'm not talking millionaire territory here.

 

Loser.

 

Not at all.

Should "MP" be a career choice decided solely on financial rewards?
You just suggested not, when you agreed that it was "**** all to do with
money", and it only needed to pay "well enough".

If you really don't think £65k is "well enough" to live comfortably, then
I hope you never have a serious career shock.

 

Yeah, look at Michael Martin. He went from sheet metal worker to Speaker
of the House!

Oh, hang on...

 

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

"As of 2009, Mittal is the world's 8th richest person and richest
person in the U.K with personal wealth of US$19.3 billion."

 

heheh, no, you're quite right. He's costing about 15 quid a week at
the moment.

 

Well I've absolutely no idea of our total outgoings, as it happens,
but according to you all non-mortgage spending would have to be
covered from that. So (and even discounting the 2-home aspects) we'd
have health insurance, council tax etc., heating costs, house
maintenance, furnishings and household appliances, clothing, vehicles
& petrol, food & drink, cleaning, oh, and whatever else I can't put my
finger on right now.

And that's before we factor in leisure activities like cycling and
skiing, plus the uquipment therefore. And proper holidays too.

So in short, I don't think we could possibly live in anything
approaching 'comfort' on that sort of money.

 

Are you suggesting that's necessary, rather than discretionary?
And that any lower expenditure would automatically equate to a miserable
existence rather than a comfortable life?

 

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

 

the older one is working now[1], and contributes a few hundred quid a
month to the household income, but I reckon he's still a net drain on
my income.

[1] living at home, age 20, taking home ~£1250 a month - not bad!