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December 07, 2005
Nice for some.....
Well, well, well. Our illustrious politicians have their fingers caught in the till again? Trying to sneak through a nice little package to give themselves a rather generous 22% pay rise - even if, as they vehemently protest, it would be spread over two years, it is still way too generous for a bunch of failed lawyers, businessmen and women and trade union organisers! They should pay us for the privilege of representing us, not the other way around!
Let's face it, boosting their already generous pay packages - an MP can claim the full "salary" plus a generous "allowance" which could total as much as £250,000 per year - to a new "high" of £72,000 per annum plus the full package of allowances, is really ripping the a**e out of the electorate. Not only do they get the most generous "pension" of any scheme on being thrown out of office - if we can persuade their usual "tribal" voters to rebel - but they have also had time and the opportunity to line up several nice "non-executive" directorships which pay rather handsomely and usually go on to offer their services to "lobbying" companies at generous fees to get these entree to the hallowed halls and corridors of Westminster and Whitehall! Most of them retire very well off indeed, never mind on the pittances they expect everyone else to survive on.
For a government that preached "moralism" and "fairness" in both the last two elections, this latest revelation is nothing less than proof that they are rotten to the core, interested only in feathering their own nests and to the devil with the taxpayers. At the next election we should insist on a health warning on all their posters -
Caveat emptor - let the voter beware!
Posted by The Gray Monk at December 7, 2005 05:27 PM
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You might want to rephrase one sentence... at the moment it sounds EXTREMELY sexist... 'failed lawyers, businessmen and women and trade union organisers'. You may have wanted to say 'business men and women, and trade union organisers' - but the way you have it, women are an undesirable group all of their own - especially in government????
Posted by: Anon at December 11, 2005 08:36 PM
Ooops! You're right - I should have said "business men and women" as it is not restricted to any particular sex in this house of worthless meddlers!
Posted by: The Gray Monk at December 12, 2005 04:14 PM