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  Are MPs then, a breed apart and not as we ordinary folk? Is (an) MP a position held or the man or woman in that position?
  Whether person or position it is clear that they stand between two extremes. The Government and the governed. Rather than, in the first instance, viewing them as if through a microscope might it help to think of them as viewed through telescopes, in the normal way from the point of view of the 'governed' and in the other way from the 'Government'?
  That is. As remote but brought closer, on the one hand, and close but viewed as remote and insignificant on the other hand.
  
  We should all know that the very first thing to happen when you pay someone by the hour is that when they are not being paid they are disinclined to do the work.
  
  The distrust in politics (IMO) goes far deeper than can be understood in mere cash terms. Any and all talk of hourly-rate serves only to keep poor poor and rich above it all. Better to consider how best to position MPs at a little over arms-length from either extreme.

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