January 11th, 2008 by ThunderDragon
“MPs may lose right to vote on pay” cries the BBC headline. May lose the right to vote on their own pay?! Why should they have the right to vote on theior own pay? No-one else does! I certainly couldn’t vote myself a pay rise! And since we are the people who are paying their wages, we should have control over that level - not them.
Unlike some, I don’t think that MPs are massively overpaid. Their standard pay is at about the right level - the problem for me is the other perks and expenses that they get paid. Especially since thye are being paid for out of my pocket.
MPs definitely shouldn’t have the right to vote on their own pay rise. That is just wrong, and just gives the public the wrong image of politicians as pigs with their noses in a trough.
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They certainly shouldn’t be allowed to use their expenses to pay for having their personnal rubbish taken away.
They should also move onto a stakeholder pension type scheme as well. We should they be mollycoddled?