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chris vince

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For many years I have been both bemused at the stories of how over worked our MP's are, combined with being appalled at the rows of empty seats in the House of Commons.
Every year, just after they give themselves their own massive pay hikes, we constantly hear what terrific value for money they give us, and how we pay them a fraction of their real worth.
Today we heard that our ex-chancellor George Osbourne has now been appointed to his 4th concurrent job!
There must be some really content constituents in Tatton (Osbourne's parliamentary seat) who want for nothing, if Osbourne can now find the time to be the full time editor of the London Evening Standard, as well as; A senior advisor for Blackrock Investment Institute, and a speaker at invitational engagements.
Don't get me wrong some MP's are decent honourable people, but after the expenses scandal, greed is back on the agenda again.
Osbourne should do the decent thing and resign, before the boundaries commission decide he will lose his seat anyway, at least his constituents would get proper full time representation.
 
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the expenses scandal did it for me,they are still at as well.:throw
 
Actually it seems to be 6 jobs.

From a money perspective, I doubt if the ÂŁ70k MPs salary is anything but pocket money considering the family wealth. I saw his dad's favourite suits cost ÂŁ19k..... (Suits plural, not suit singular)
 
Well they need the second jobs now to afford to buy the ÂŁ2000 bags of bird seed and ÂŁ15000 duck houses i mean come on have a hart were would the ducks live if we didnt have the mp's that thought so much of them lol
 
There are good and bad people in all walks of life.

It would be very bizarre to assume that if there was a burglary in your own town, that everyone from that town must be a burglar.

For those people who wrongly think all politicians are bent, or useless, I don't see any of those people getting involved themselves to make anything better, or indeed doing anything useful except moaning from their armchairs.

The odd thing about bent politicians is why people voted for them in the first place - did they not spot the ones that are self-seeking crooks or grandstanders right away? You do have a choice in the UK - for the time being.....
 
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I stand to be corrected, but to my recollection there were only two MP's who were COMPLETELY in the clear in the expenses scandal, so that's about 99.72% of this particular town that were at it!
As for joining 'the club' I hope your comments weren't directed directly at me, because I did once seriously contemplate the process, only to find that the career I was in for 30 years banned me from direct political involvement, I did however once help my neighbour in his attempt, have you any idea just what a closed shop this is?
A person needs to accept the dictates of the higher office of whatever group they HAVE to belong to, or be prepared to not even get out of the starting blocks.
Anyone self thinking person with morals, wishing to just support their constituents as an independent, free from party dictates, with no axes to grind, has no chance whatsoever of getting elected, how many independents are there in parliament?
NIL!
I agree with you on your third point, it is the blind generational voting practices that are largely responsible for wasters getting elected, indeed my own former MP once stated in an interview in our local paper, dictated from his very large Staffordshire estate, that 'he has NO intention of ever visiting his constituency, and that any of his constituents wishing to contact him, must do so through his local agent'!
I NEVER voted for him, BUT he still got elected through the support of blind sheep like idiots, because historically he was sitting in a SAFE seat!
The present system of voting is also vulnerable to fraud, as can be seen during recent elections where certain candidates have been elected after en-mass block postal voting sessions in the local mosques!
This is how a community gets to change the historic pattern of voting representatives in multi cultural Britain!
 
Not that it will ever happen, but I believe that MPs and cabinet ministers should be paid a proper rate for the job.

The proper rate would encourage the best people to become politicians rather than the second rate people we see today.

ÂŁ70k for an MP and ÂŁ200k for the PM doesn't reflect the importance of the job, especially if you look at salaries for the majority of corporate CEOs which tend to be a ÂŁ2 to ÂŁ3m package.
 
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