Rock Bottomley: MP complains about £82k salary while millions starve after Universal Credit cut

Bottomley: the Father of the House of Commons doesn’t think MPs earn enough and says they should have as much as GPs. In the interests of “levelling up”, perhaps Boris Johnson should consider making their £100k-a-year the National Living Wage?

What an inconsiderate narcissist Peter Bottomley is!

On the day Universal Credit – the main unemployment benefit but also the subsidy paid to working people to make up for the failure of businesses to pay them a living wage – was cut, plunging 4.4 million people into poverty, he complained that his £82,000 MP’s salary isn’t enough.

He thinks he should get around the same amount as GPs – slightly more than £100,000 a year. Average salary – which is skewed upwards by the top 10 per cent of earners – is £31,000.

Strangely, he admitted that he is not suffering financially himself:

Although he said he currently is not struggling financially, he believes the situation is ‘desperately difficult’ for his newer colleagues.

The representative of Worthing West in West Sussex added: ‘I don’t know how they manage. It’s really grim.’

That didn’t stop people like his former colleague Michael Portillo leaping to support him on TV, with what can only be seen as a false argument:

Portillo was saying it must be hard for older MPs to put up with receiving the same amount as their younger colleagues, when Bottomley was saying it must be harder for younger MPs.

They can’t even get their story straight!

And the comparison with GPs doesn’t work, either, because doctors are paid according to the amount of time they work and MPs aren’t:

This Writer doubts it would work if we paid MPs by the hour; it would just give them another opportunity to submit false claims (expenses scandal, anybody?).

Bottomley deserves all the sympathy he received from satirical songwriter Mitch Benn:

It isn’t impossible – at 77, Bottomley is younger than at least one driver the government is desperate to put back in a cab:

For most of the rest of us, £82,000 a year is an impossible dream. That’s why Bottomley has received a huge amount of criticism for his selfish words. Here’s one of the milder rebukes.

Still, Boris Johnson likes to talk about “levelling up” and he’s currently waffling about wages to anybody who can still be bothered to listen.

So, what about it, Boris? The Father of the House thinks wages should rise.

How about accommodating him, and increasing the National Living Wage to £100k all around?

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  1. Jon Lisle-Summers October 9, 2021 at 11:31 am - Reply

    The £82k salary: MPs get to keep more of their direct income than we do because we can’t claim expenses like travel, accommodation and stationery. Not forgetting the 20% of Tories who get rents off their property portfolios. And all kinds of Consultancy in private companies.

  2. Jeffrey Davies October 9, 2021 at 11:47 am - Reply

    If only the peasants had food given the no bills arse paper to wipe their behinds oh dear me

  3. trev October 9, 2021 at 11:53 am - Reply

    Bottomley is either living on a different planet or is being deliberately provocative, a disgrace either way. He should go work a shift at a foodbank.

  4. kateuk October 9, 2021 at 11:55 am - Reply

    MPs should be paid the average wage that people in the UK receive, it’s more than most people get. Maybe then they would be more in touch with reality. Oh and no subsidies for food and drink. They should lean to live like the rest of us.

  5. disabledgrandad October 9, 2021 at 3:34 pm - Reply

    FU you arrogant Tory scumbag.

    Let’s see scum like you try and live on what you give a disabled person barely £100 a week.

    Do we have to put up with useless BS like this?

    Let’s see what scumbag has voted shall we…. He voted down every rise for disabled and normal people. Reduced Disabled benefits by £30 and if you were lucky enough to get this uplift you just lost another £20.

    His massive wages aren’t enough for this slime lord nope more more more the Tory way and ideology!

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