The ability of Tory MPs to shock with their stupidity is, it seems without limit.
Here Andrew Rosindell MP tells Newsnight that great care must be taken with changing rules on MP second jobs as people's lifstyles and their need to make ends meet must be taken into consideration.
Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on preventing MPs having a second job: “How can we possibly survive on £81,932 a year? What about our lifestyle??”#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/2wegBsAG1P
— David (@Zero_4) November 16, 2021
Did he say that when cutting £20 a week from Universal Credit? No, of course, he did not.
Well-being and lifestyle is a concept that only the rich, and Tory MPs can afford, apparently.
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Is he serious? Take a look at the real world. There are many who are struggling to make ends meet with some having more than one job.
And people voted for this guy – it beggars belief.
Craig
What makes you laugh about this is that reifies what is really going on doesn’t it?
Obviously some people feel that they are sacrificing their lives to be MPs – poor them/ah bless – because of course they are only there to actually be an impediment to progress and keep the great unwashed in their place.
And again it shows us just how out of touch some of these people are.
In more enlightened times, the pitch forks would have been drawn a long time ago.
Mind you, when an MP loses their seat – the personal job loss is another matter and I think the system has to be looked at. But I would not sanction that if the individual had second jobs, places on Boards etc., and ‘advisory roles’ that brought cash in.
I wouldn’t feel sorry for them. They get a massive payment, i.e. about £60k, if they’re got rid of as an MP. Far higher than any redundancy t&c’s for us ordinary folk.
It’s not about feeling sorry for them Leigh – it’s just about having a system and ethos in place that encourages the right behaviour in the first place.
The heart bleeds doesn’t it. How is a Tory MP meant to send their children to private school on that sort of salary (answer: family wealth).
If he doesn’t want to serve his country, I am sure there are other, better paid jobs he could do. But it is not about the money. Or is it?
An annual salary of £83,000 equates to over £1,000 per week after tax or about £4,500 per month. Compare the monthly standard allowance under universal credit of £324.84 for a single person aged over 25. How is that meant to support any kind of lifestyle?
Precisely
It is interesting how being an MP is a “job” rather than a “vocation”. I am sure that others carry out public service without reward as I do with two charities.
I believe that it was Enoch Powell who was of the view that MP’s should be paid at the rate of a parish priest.
The aim of becoming an MP is for the title which gets them influence to do second lucrative jobs to make millions, otherwise they would not be interested in working as MPs in the first place. Why would a 150K to 200K salary lawyer leave his job for an 82K MP salary if it was not for doing a second job, getting bribes from their tax evasion cronies, which they call donation, etc etc