MPs: Pigs, Snouts and Troughs
Monday, 4 December 2006
From the BBC:
Half of them would be challenged if asked to run the proverbial whelk-stall. As for the others, if they want to make more money let them get a different job. No one forces them to become MPs and, God knows, there are enough hopefuls queing up to take their places. Perhaps if the laws of supply and demand were to be applied strictly, we could end up in the happy position of MPs paying the public for the privilege of being an MP. At least then we would get a financial return out of them, and they could serve a useful, if minor, purpose.
MPs have been criticised after reports some are calling for a 66% pay rise, taking salaries to £100,000 a year.If there were any logic or justice to the way things are organised in this country, MPs would be paid the average salary. Perhaps then they would appreciate more directly the impact that the policies they implement, and the taxes that they raise, have on ordinary people.
Half of them would be challenged if asked to run the proverbial whelk-stall. As for the others, if they want to make more money let them get a different job. No one forces them to become MPs and, God knows, there are enough hopefuls queing up to take their places. Perhaps if the laws of supply and demand were to be applied strictly, we could end up in the happy position of MPs paying the public for the privilege of being an MP. At least then we would get a financial return out of them, and they could serve a useful, if minor, purpose.