Tory MP asks for pay rise

[Bulletguy]

 

A Conservative has spoken out about the struggles of living on an MP’s salary on the day Universal Credit has been cut for the most vulnerable in the country.

 

Sir Peter Bottomley, the ‘Father of the House’ as the MP in the Commons with the longest continuous service, called it ‘desperately difficult’ for many of his colleagues.

 

He thinks MPs, who are paid £81,932 annually, should be paid the same amount as GPs – whose average salary in England is £100,700.

 

The average salary across the UK was £31,461 as of last year.

 

Although he said he currently is not struggling financially, he believes the situation is ‘desperately difficult’ for his newer colleagues.

 

He added: ‘I don’t know how they manage. It’s really grim.’

 

He further told of when he almost considered stepping down as an MP in 1982.

 

He said his wife, Virginia, had given up most of her paid work to run as a candidate on the Isle of Wight, and they had ‘two and half dependent children’ to look after.

 

‘MPs’ pay was low, and I wasn’t going to go either broke or crooked to keep going,’ he told the publication.

 

Both he and his Baroness wife also draw a state pension. I expect they've deferred that to pile up in their bank. :-|

 

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[John52]

do we have a shortage of MPs *-)

[Ron]

Why does he think he should get the same rate of pay as a Doctor, A Doctor has to have very good qualifications from school then off to University and medical school for at least 5 years to gain even more qualifications and that's just to get a foot in.

 

MPs can leave school with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever and do not need any to get elected to Parliament, it helps if they have the gift of the gab and can lie whilst smiling at you.. On top of the 81k salary they also get everything possible paid on expenses and very long holidays.

So how can he possibly compare the twoI there is no comparison.

 

I would suggest that the vast majority of MPs are worth the minimum wage at best and should be paid that and no more.

[John52]

I would suggest the median average wage of the people they arew supposed to represenr.

Then they ight understand them better.

Like, for instance, why their £35billion test and trace was doomed to fail from the start.

 

[Bulletguy]

Ron - 2021-10-06 10:46 PM

 

Why does he think he should get the same rate of pay as a Doctor, A Doctor has to have very good qualifications from school then off to University and medical school for at least 5 years to gain even more qualifications and that's just to get a foot in.

 

MPs can leave school with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever and do not need any to get elected to Parliament, it helps if they have the gift of the gab and can lie whilst smiling at you.. On top of the 81k salary they also get everything possible paid on expenses and very long holidays.

So how can he possibly compare the two there is no comparison.

 

I would suggest that the vast majority of MPs are worth the minimum wage at best and should be paid that and no more.

There are a number of links on this parliament website showing the cheap prices they enjoy in the various restaurants at Westminster, heavily subsidised by us lesser mortals who are not allowed to dine there.

 

Latest published are two years ago but it gives a clear indication how the privileged pigs enjoy troughing it on the cheap whilst voting against free school meals for the poor. :-(

 

https://tinyurl.com/2cf5ub47

[Bulletguy]

 

The public have taken pity on poverty struck ministers after Sir Peter Bottomleys comments yesterday about MP's financial situation being "desperately difficult".

 

So a funding page has been opened and already raised £439 of a £1000 target........don't worry, it's going to a very good cause. The proceeds are going to The Trussell Trust – a charity working to end the need for food banks in the UK.

 

Some cracking comments like this from Jenny who donated £20; I had no idea how desperate things had become...have a week's worth of universal credit top up - what kind of people would remove that from families in need???

 

Many pointed out his salary does not include an MP’s generous expenses allowance, and others suggested if he had his wages cut by the equivalent of the Universal Credit cuts he would lose out on more than £17,000 a year.

 

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/peterbottomleyfoodbankfund

 

https://tinyurl.com/f7xd3rhd

[CurtainRaiser]

Meanwhile at Clarks shoes in Street is fire and rehire.

 

In comments that were crass even by his own low standards, Boris Johnson recently told an interviewer that falling health outcomes didn’t matter because wages were going up. His statement, “never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes – look at wage growth” has been widely condemned as callous and indifferent to the suffering of thousands of people with life threatening conditions. Moreover, it just isn’t true for very many people.

 

One group for whom it is most definitely not true is the workers at Clarks Distribution Centre in Street, Somerset. They are faced with the prospect of being sacked and then re-employed on lower wages and worse conditions – victims of the newly fashionable employer tactic of ‘fire and rehire’. Instead of earning an average of £11.16 per hour workers will be paid £9.50. Instead of sick pay provisions that allow 13 weeks on full pay they will get 6 weeks full, and 6 weeks half pay. Sick pay for the first day of absence will be abolished.

 

https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/firing-and-rehiring-in-street-why-johnsons-high-flown-high-wage-economy-is-for-the-birds/?fbclid=IwAR0UFqT5ker0zhKzzNo5P-xhBBjP3gd5osRleE2hS7XKtUxJ7_xS0Vxtb5I