howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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as the logical extension to m.p's setting their own wages we would have to extend the privilege to all other public sector employees.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard - they are not just any other public sector employee. There is a basic rule that the House of Commons is supreme and answerable to the electorate only.
Because I set my own wage in my business it does not mean my employee should.l
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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The problem is that once MPs are sitting very comfortably in the Commons with all its perks they are not answerable to anyone, apart from their chosen party, until the next election, except in extremely unusual circumstances.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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A lot have been answerable to the law in the last few years Jan, probably not as many as should have been!
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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doesnt ring true barryw
In todays society with all the cutbacks MP's should show the way
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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its a case of don't do what I do,but do as I say.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That is why I have said they should freeze their pay and lead by example.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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I suspect there's one tory MP who might not be earning any money from her present job as Old Nig has announced that he's standing for the south Thanet seat at the next general election.
Funny thing about green tories - shouldn't they just cross the floor and announce themselves as liberals?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Are you sure about that philip, nigel f recently said that he wouldn;t make a decision on where he would stand until after next years european elections?
If it is true i think he has made a wrong decision with folkestone and hythe much more vulnerable.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Don't know if it's a definite at all but earlier reports in the broadsheets earlier in October certainly pointed in that direction. Either way it should make the next election very interesting.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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hes also been looking at folkestone
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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when we complain about it they call it the politics of envy brian.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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If they cut all that out they might actually get people respecting them
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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ah ha a touch of the green eyed monster.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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we should complain
its our right
also at election time we can decide who we want to put in(or not as the case mau be)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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might be worth a sniff or two,achoooooooooooooo.