MPs' salaries pass £65,000 after 1.5% rise

[GommeInc]

That's alot for what is effectively a glorified public servant. No more than £40,000 a year would be a wiser move, for what is effectively doing not alot (seeing as MPs have people behind them doing all the leg work, and their current attitude towards the general public is quite disgraceful). Although the good ones didn't fiddle with their expensives, they should of acted on this knowledge, making it known that there are flaws, but unfortunately they didn't :/

[alexxxxx]

i think £60k is probably justified.

[dbgtz]

At a point where taxes and stuff are rising and we still can't afford to live like this and have debt, this is ridculous. - http://consumerchampion.spaces.live.com/ that's what will rise. There's no point cutting in certain places and just moving it over, stoooooooooopid. As said before most families don't reach that on both parents salaries so why should they get more in just one persons paycheck when to me it seems like an easy as job, I mean seriously what do you do that's worth £60k+ a year?

[Adamm]

Considering CPI (inflation) was roughly 1.5% for the whole of last year, I'm more than fine with them having a pay rise. You wouldn't like to be earning less than you were a year ago would you...

Problem is, with my pay not increasing with inflation - I am earning less than I was the previous year. Every year.

[DJ-Ains.T]

I still think the government in this country sucks. I also think that the house of commons is full of old men shouting at each other.

When they start talking politely, I'll take into consideration that they deserve a payrise, until then, they do not need this payrise at all.

[Nixt]

Problem is, with my pay not increasing with inflation - I am earning less than I was the previous year. Every year.

Wow what job do you do? Even when I worked in retail my pay rose with inflation :s.

[LuketheDuke]

That pay sounds about right, lot of people go on about most MPs having people running around after them behind the scenes but for most ordinary MPs its a lot of graft on their part.

[Adamm]

Wow what job do you do? Even when I worked in retail my pay rose with inflation :s.

Aha.

I do work in retail, my pay hasn't rised with inflation since I've been there and neither has my dad's or mother's who are both skilled workers.