I was reading yet again today the story of a Stephen Phillips who is an MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham in the East Midlands. It seems that on top of being an MP earning an already very large wage, that he is also being paid a reported £1 million for his Barrister work over the last two years.
Now whilst I am certainly not against him for earning vast sums of money as a Barrister, what I am concerned about is that he has been doing this whilst being a serving MP. I believe that being an MP should mean it is a full time job, and surely it should be if you are representing your constituents properly? One of my local MP's or past MP a Stoate was also a GP in my local surgery. Many times he was not there doing his work as a GP with patients as he was doing Parliamentary work for being an MP. How on earth can you be a MP and also a GP at the same time, and doing both of them to the best of his ability. Surely by becoming an MP for Dartford, he should have given up his work as a GP and a partner in his Bexleyheath practice?
I think being an MP should be a job that should not allow a second job, as surely it must interfere with the job of being a full time MP. I was not aware that being an Mp was anything other than a full time position? A position that pays a staggering £65,738 a year plus expenses should be a full time position and nothing else surely?
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Sex God
Quote by starlightcouple
A position that pays a staggering £65,738 a year...
Is staggering the right word? Seemingly the average wage is £25,000+ and so a bit more than twice the national average does not seem staggering to me.
I can't believe that you would expect anyone to go into politics if their salary was going to be capped at £65,000. We want good, ambitious people in politics - not people who think that £65,000 is a good wage.
Quote by starlightcouple
A position that pays a staggering £65,738 a year...
Quote by Too Hot
Is staggering the right word? Seemingly the average wage is £25,000+ and so a bit more than twice the national average does not seem staggering to me.
Have you missed the point of the post TH? My point is surely being an MP should be a full time position, and not something you juggle another job around.
Quote by Too Hot
I can't believe that you would expect anyone to go into politics if their salary was going to be capped at £65,000. We want good, ambitious people in politics - not people who think that £65,000 is a good wage.
The highlighted bit I would have thought would have been an obvious thing?
I think most people would expect an MP's salary to be more than the " average " wage, but I would also expect for a year that they would be there full time and they also get how many weeks a year off as well?
An MP should dedicate their whole time to being one and not have a second job as well. Surely there must at some point be a conflict of what's more important?
Sex God
I questioned the use of your description of an MP's staggering salary of £65,000. I did not miss the irony that you did not bat an eyelid over the presumably normal £1,000,000 Barrister earnings.
It was the staggering salary of £65,000 that caught my eye.
It was the staggering salary of £65,000 that caught my eye.
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I questioned the use of your description of an MP's staggering salary of £65,000. I did not miss the irony that you did not bat an eyelid over the presumably normal £1,000,000 Barrister earnings.
An MP's salary of not far short of three times the national average, coupled with around 25 weeks paid leave plus vast expenses for second homes etc etc etc.......for a job that actually takes very little skill at all just the ability to talk shite most of the time. You do not need a six year degree to become one, you do not even have to have had any A levels at school. That is why I think 65 grand is a shit load of money TH, but then did not expect you to fully understand what I wrote, as when I post you pick out what you see which in most occasions is very little.
But a Barrister on the other hand who to start with has to reach a certain attainment level at school, then to go to law school which is SIX years for the degree at least, and then a further time spent at being a junior solicitor before at some point moving on to become a Barrister possibly ten years after qualifying at law school. I certainly do not begrudge someone who has worked damned hard like that and dedicated years of their lives to doing, unlike being an MP that takes no exceptional skills at all.
Quote by Too Hot
It was the staggering salary of £65,000 that caught my eye.
65 grand is a staggering amount of money for the reasons I have mentioned above. For a job that actually takes no particular skills to learn. I cannot think of many jobs that a person can do that takes no training, no particular skills, allows huge expenses and pays for your second home. Not bad for a job that requires no A levels or degrees. Can you name another job that is in the same bracket TH? That is why it is a staggering amount of money and we all know it certainly does not stop at 65 grand. Some of their expenses alone can run into more than their basic salaries.
Quote by Too Hot
A position that pays a staggering £65,738 a year...
Is staggering the right word? Seemingly the average wage is £25,000+ and so a bit more than twice the national average does not seem staggering to me.
I can't believe that you would expect anyone to go into politics if their salary was going to be capped at £65,000. We want good, ambitious people in politics - not people who think that £65,000 is a good wage.
It is staggering to me, set against my personal income of £6500 per year
a figure which has just been reduced to that by 1 third of what it used to be thanks to Government cuts.But I think the point is that for 65 grand a year we should expect a full working week with no time available for a 2nd full time job where someone can earn a further £1million a year.
Sex God
F*cking b*stard MP's are mostly self serving freemasonry (and no i don't give a flying f*ck about the 'good' work the masons do) shitesters and even if they do go into the house with initial good intentions then that's bribed out of them tout suite. Maybe there is something in the idea of having Mp's selected in a similar fashion as you would say Jurors.
Running the country has fu*k all to do with the MP's anyway. They are there just to deflect the public from ever really getting to grips with the cretins such as the The Bilderberg Group who do. Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist nooooooooooooooo.
Running the country has fu*k all to do with the MP's anyway. They are there just to deflect the public from ever really getting to grips with the cretins such as the The Bilderberg Group who do. Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist nooooooooooooooo.
