MPs are set to get an above-inflation pay rise – for a really silly reason.
IPSA – the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority that was set up after the 2009 expenses scandal to make the pay-setting process more transparent – said the rise should reflect trends in public sector pay.
But this does not take into account the fact that public sector pay was reduced under Conservative rule from 2010 onwards, while MPs’ pay was not.
The result was that, for example, nurses’ pay fell by 25 per cent between 2010 and 2024 – in real terms. MP pay kept parity with its 2010 level.
So IPSA’s plan to give MPs a 2.8 per cent pay increase – above the current 2.5 per cent level of inflation – is over-generous.
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It would give MPs a basic salary of £93,904, which is far too much – nearly three times the £33,100 which is apparently average pay here in Mid Wales. In This Writer’s opinion, MP pay should reflect what the UK’s lowest-earning people receive – so they can understand the difficulties such people face.
Even then, the fact is that MPs would claim huge amounts of money on expenses. Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary who says the benefit bill for disabled people is much too high, claimed an extra £3,182, on top of her enormous salary, to heat her second home between April 2023 and July 2024.
And she’s just one of more than 630 scroungers in the House of Commons alone.
IPSA says it will launch a wider review of MPs’ pay in the spring, to decide how MPs will be paid from April 2026 onwards. Among other elements, this will compare UK MPs’ pay to the way politicians in other countries are paid – but you can be sure they’ll receive as much as – or more than – the most well-paid in the world.
It’s not good enough. While MPs continue hammering the most vulnerable people in the country with false assertions that the pittance they receive is too much, they are filling their own pockets and bank accounts with all the cash they can get away with. What a gang of crooks.
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MPs are set to get an above-inflation pay rise. Why?
MPs are set to get an above-inflation pay rise – for a really silly reason.
IPSA – the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority that was set up after the 2009 expenses scandal to make the pay-setting process more transparent – said the rise should reflect trends in public sector pay.
But this does not take into account the fact that public sector pay was reduced under Conservative rule from 2010 onwards, while MPs’ pay was not.
The result was that, for example, nurses’ pay fell by 25 per cent between 2010 and 2024 – in real terms. MP pay kept parity with its 2010 level.
So IPSA’s plan to give MPs a 2.8 per cent pay increase – above the current 2.5 per cent level of inflation – is over-generous.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
It would give MPs a basic salary of £93,904, which is far too much – nearly three times the £33,100 which is apparently average pay here in Mid Wales. In This Writer’s opinion, MP pay should reflect what the UK’s lowest-earning people receive – so they can understand the difficulties such people face.
Even then, the fact is that MPs would claim huge amounts of money on expenses. Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary who says the benefit bill for disabled people is much too high, claimed an extra £3,182, on top of her enormous salary, to heat her second home between April 2023 and July 2024.
And she’s just one of more than 630 scroungers in the House of Commons alone.
IPSA says it will launch a wider review of MPs’ pay in the spring, to decide how MPs will be paid from April 2026 onwards. Among other elements, this will compare UK MPs’ pay to the way politicians in other countries are paid – but you can be sure they’ll receive as much as – or more than – the most well-paid in the world.
It’s not good enough. While MPs continue hammering the most vulnerable people in the country with false assertions that the pittance they receive is too much, they are filling their own pockets and bank accounts with all the cash they can get away with. What a gang of crooks.
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