MPs to recieve £10,000 pay rise

[Niall!]

What did you expect? They need something to cover their lack of money and to pay for that next chandelier.

[GommeInc]

We need a Guy Fawkes. Blow the whole Houses of Parliament up with all the annoying MPs in and get the Queen to run the country again, she's been taught how to do most things and just have Phillip as Foreign Secretary = perfect Britain.

I feel sorry for the MPs who have done no wrong for now getting a bad image thanks to their piers and the media. I don't get why loads of politicians are getting paid so much anyway. They really should only have an above average salary - there was a phrase for policitians, something like public servants but less creepy. There's a woman in Suffolk who gets more than the PM and says she deserves every penny. I can't remember what she did though, some council.

[Chippiewill]

Nah, we need V from 'V for Vendetta'. I think they should be payed for each day that they actually turn up at parliament. They don't actually ever have to turn up if they don't want to...

[-:Undertaker:-]

Why should these clowns get a pay rise whether they have been fiddling expenses or not? - everyone else is out of work/having to take a pay cut. It is an absolute joke, and the fact that some MPs attempted to vote for the arrogant and out of touch Margaret Beckett as Speaker to clean up the system when she herself was one of the biggest fraudsters going, an absolute joke.

Be gone with the whole lot of them.

[GommeInc]

I don't get why they need paying alot, when a politician IS effectively a civil servant - they run the country on behalf of us. They serve us, not we serve them. HUGE difference. The maximum income for an MP should be no more than 40,000 to 60,000. They do not need anymore than that. It's obsurd to think they need money chucked at them by the bucket full.

[Alkaz]

My local MP claimed rediculous amounts over the past 3 years, and he had to have a second home in London because he couldnt cope with the 27 mile journey from westminster to where he lives. He said he tried to do it but couldnt cope, unlike thousands who do it every day and much longer journeys home. Its just ridiculous. They also get a 'House of Fraiser' shopping list allowence for there second home which they are allowed to claim for which includes like £20,000 worth of furniture including £100 dining chairs, £600 tables, £1000 fridges, £500 sound systems. Its absolutely stupid, its not like they were lacking in freebies before hand, even if they were they earn enough to buy stuff their self.

If anything the expenses should be examined alot more and they all should be taking a £10,000 pay cut, in the economic times a £10,000 pay rise is extremely unfair for everyone but I guess it will hit the 2.2 million un-employed in the UK even more.

[GommeInc]

My local MP claimed rediculous amounts over the past 3 years, and he had to have a second home in London because he couldnt cope with the 27 mile journey from westminster to where he lives. He said he tried to do it but couldnt cope, unlike thousands who do it every day and much longer journeys home. Its just ridiculous. They also get a 'House of Fraiser' shopping list allowence for there second home which they are allowed to claim for which includes like £20,000 worth of furniture including £100 dining chairs, £600 tables, £1000 fridges, £500 sound systems. Its absolutely stupid, its not like they were lacking in freebies before hand, even if they were they earn enough to buy stuff their self.

If anything the expenses should be examined alot more and they all should be taking a £10,000 pay cut, in the economic times a £10,000 pay rise is extremely unfair for everyone but I guess it will hit the 2.2 million un-employed in the UK even more.

Agreed. I don't get why people get freebies when they get given a high salary anyway, and a second home is pointless when really all they need is a small flat, not a huge town house - and that's for MPs who have to travel great distances or will find it difficult (it would be unfair setting a mile radius limit, when not everyone is the same and may need a second home/flat/apartment if travel in general is crap).

[Alkaz]

The government should build an accomodation building in west london exclusively for MP's. It should be totally government owned, MP's wouldnt be able to let it out or sell it. A small furnished flat for the MP's to live in whilst in Westminster. There bills should be paid but they should be expected to pay for food etc.

It would save the hassel of MP's needing to claim for a second home and all the ridiculous things which they claim are needed to help them do their job which is rubbish. They will have a perminant second home whilst in office and the only expenses they should be allowed to claim for then is travel and staff.

[GommeInc]

The government should build an accomodation building in west london exclusively for MP's. It should be totally government owned, MP's wouldnt be able to let it out or sell it. A small furnished flat for the MP's to live in whilst in Westminster. There bills should be paid but they should be expected to pay for food etc.

It would save the hassel of MP's needing to claim for a second home and all the ridiculous things which they claim are needed to help them do their job which is rubbish. They will have a perminant second home whilst in office and the only expenses they should be allowed to claim for then is travel and staff.

Suunds like a reasonable idea, but the problem might be with security issues and possible hassles for when MPs are chucked at, plus there are loads!

[Alkaz]

Give them a bed in there office at westminster.