[QUOTE] Obviously - just done it again and got 98%[/QUOTE] Ah, I guessed about right then.
Eh? When have I ever said I feel poor? -- Krusty '03 Tiger 955i '02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale) '79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)
I said bills, not outgoings. Pretty much all of those things you mentioned are completely subjective. And this is were we come in with Ace's "comfortable" because everyone has different opinions and wants in those outgoings. And there we've come back full circle to Krusty feeling poor.
Ahh that's gone back up a little bit. It's all a bit of nonsense anyway as I know I'm doing reasonably well, but could earn loads more in or around Her Majesty's 'The South', along with the an equivalent increase in living costs.
You shouldn't confuse what was needed to be a Labour MP back in the 1930s with what's needed today. They are very different indeed.
See response to Champ. I wrote "bills" not "outgoings". As in fixed monthly costs for a minimum set of services generally required by everyone. Not "other things I want to spend my money on".
It also failed on Adam Smith's first principle which was, in essence, pay tax according to your means. In other words, an income tax not some flat rate. I'm for a local income tax as a matter of principle. I'm glad the LibDems agree.
It has nothing to do with being an MP: there are plenty of people in jobs that are `beneath them' because they took the job they could get. In the past, some of those people would have become MPs or senior trade unionists. As for the 1930s, I was thinking of the 60s and 70s. There are still a couple of people who got to Parliament that way.
Indeed. I think MPs' salaries need to be high enough not to discourage prospective MPs from standing, but not so high as to make the job attractive simply by virtue of its salary. Personally I think the current level is about right.
"**** you Jack, I worked my ass off to get a decent education and job, whilst you were bullying kids at school and left at 16 to become a free loading bum, and now I'm supposed to subsidise you."
"**** you, Jack, I'm a B-list celeb adding nothing to humankind, whilst you work for a pittance for a charity helping those much less fortunate than me"
That's a good site. I guess we're in the same constituency. Last time I had a LD canvasser on the doorstep I challenged her to come up with some good reasons why the LD were better/different from the other main parties - she just said "we are different" and walked off. Great canvassing! Not that I ever vote, but it doesn't stop me whinging.
Oh sure, and I think we're saying the same thing. I would argue that the experience of being a shop steward, which requires you to be able to deal with different personalities, cope with difficult people, negotiate, persuade, etc, was his 'real' job, in that it would give him the sort of skills required to be an MP. Certainly his personal skillset would be significantly different from a shopfloor worker with no union activity.
Lorely Burt? She's fairly inoffensive. And her secretary lives across the road from my Mum so if I need to moan about the amount of postal spam she sends, it's pretty easy.
Same MP but it was a minion that did the door to door. I've had nothing but standard replies when I've ever felt bothered enough to write to her about something.
Aren't we a rich lot. Apparently I'd be in the top 1% if I lived in the UK. I bet I'm not in the top 1% in Switzerland.
