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Originally Posted by Seeker
So, do they earn their money and deserve a rise? Absolutely not.
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On the other hand........
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sk...itics-11489543
The fact that trying to become an MP is already a huge mountain to climb for 'ordinary' people of average means (and trying to remain an MP also a relatively precarious goal) probably helps explain why you end up with one of the two main political parties lead for a decade by out of touch fools such as Ed "Edstone" Miliband and Jeremy "Free Broadband" Corbyn.
If we want politicians that understand the concerns of the 'man in the street' I don't see how paying them less or putting them under even yet more scrutiny (through a payment by results system that sounds a nice idea in theory but pretty unworkable in practice) would help.
Just sounds like a recipe for increasing the number of "out of touch millionaire" MPs to me.