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MP Salary Question....?
Should an MP earning a basic salary of £64,766 per year,with a very generous expenses allowance and an equally generous final pension scheme be allowed to have a 2nd job?
As they get an 80 day break from Parliament,i'd suggest they get a summer job picking berries if they are that strapped for cash..........
3 Answers
- Rob RoyLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
They are on a gravy train as was revealed in the expenses scandal and they are fighting tooth and nail to prevent any erosion of their dishonest ways.Pink hamster wants to have them well paid so Parliament and politics will get the brightest and best,well since it's failed so far and what we have are old hacks recycled by their party. It's a cosy club and most of them are greedy, morally dishonest individuals completely out of touch with the electorate.
- creamfeatherLv 61 decade ago
I dont believe they should be allowed to have a second job.
On the 80 days break from parliament, I suggest they spend the time looking after the many problems of their constituants. Thats what they were elected for.
- 1 decade ago
It depends what influence their second job could have on the running of the country.
However, this is definitely a fine line as we want to attract the best and brightest minds into politics. If a politician has set up a very successful business I would not expect them to have no input at a boardroom level when they are not in Parliament.
I wouldn't like to see politics become about punishing the successful and giving the failures a £64k job.