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15 hours ago, Detournement said:

I saved these from Twitter this morning. Neither of these two creeps will regret anything they published but they were definitely rattled. 

That's why Sir Kieth has his standing orders to destroy the Labour movement. 

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To be fair you can get a decent coat out of asda for £20-£30 so there's no need for Jezza to get all billy big baws in his flashy clothes. 

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The good people of Esher and Walton have elected a man who doesn't understand common words. Morons.
 
Who came through a law graduate scheme at Linklaters, who I'm sure are a large silver-circle corporate law firm.
And the guy doesn't even understand words.
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43 minutes ago, Jeff Venom said:

Who came through a law graduate scheme at Linklaters, who I'm sure are a large silver-circle corporate law firm.
And the guy doesn't even understand words.

He's not actually a lawyer is he? Can you imagine if he had to rely on that for his income :lol:

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If it wasn't for the meagre allowance for accomodation and the £4k a year no questions asked expenses (before actual expenses) it would be difficult for these poor guys to to work in London on that pittance. 

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9148/

Plus 15k extra for committee chairs and junior ministers etc. 

Before any of the usual suspects comes in with the usual "we need good mps" shite, this is how it compares to other government jobs in the London area:

https://uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=667e80ed72377631&from=serp

https://uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=40283508cd8ad9d7&from=serp

https://uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a034b6c12bb6556c&from=serp

All of which are obviously jobs we'd like complete welts in. 

Oh, and none of the above are jobs where you can work on the side as a hedge fund marketer, arms firm director or reactionary contrarian newspaper columnist. 

Utterly despicable c***s. 

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10 hours ago, tamthebam said:

If he doesn't like it he can always f**k off and get another job.

Which is usually the advice Tory MPs give to the low paid

I have long maintained MPs should be paid the national average wage, reviewed yearly, plus expenses. With no possibility to advise private companies or in any way have a potential conflict of interest with those of your constituents.

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I have long maintained MPs should be paid the national average wage, reviewed yearly, plus expenses. With no possibility to advise private companies or in any way have a potential conflict of interest with those of your constituents.
They did similar with local Councillors and they're still largely fucking morons.
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1 minute ago, Day of the Lords said:
3 minutes ago, 101 said:
I have long maintained MPs should be paid the national average wage, reviewed yearly, plus expenses. With no possibility to advise private companies or in any way have a potential conflict of interest with those of your constituents.

They did similar with local Councillors and they're still largely fucking morons.

Do they not get paid like £17k or something but yeh I agree doing something about the voting system and stopping sex offenders holding onto their jobs would be a good start to clear out the muck.

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Do they not get paid like £17k or something but yeh I agree doing something about the voting system and stopping sex offenders holding onto their jobs would be a good start to clear out the muck.
18k I think with add on for chairing sub committees, expenses etc. If anything the quality of candidates is even worse than it was in the old days.

Incredible that Tory c**t in Aberdeen has been able to brass it out despite being a sex offender [emoji23]
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Labour don't have a stream of hard nosed trade union folk coming through with a history of getting stuff done. Politics now seems to be the reserve of largely talentless people which is a shame.

It was nice to see the Lib Dems keep the heat up but doubt he cares.

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18k I think with add on for chairing sub committees, expenses etc. If anything the quality of candidates is even worse than it was in the old days.

Incredible that Tory c**t in Aberdeen has been able to brass it out despite being a sex offender [emoji23]
There was proposed legislation for a "qualification " bar to be set for anyone standing to be a Councillor. Unsurprisingly it got nowhere given that's the background of a large number of MSPs.
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1 hour ago, 101 said:

Labour don't have a stream of hard nosed trade union folk coming through with a history of getting stuff done. Politics now seems to be the reserve of largely talentless people which is a shame.

It was nice to see the Lib Dems keep the heat up but doubt he cares.

This is a deliberate choice that happened in line with loads of economic levers being phased out of democratic political control. Politics is supposed to be alienating and out of touch with ordinary people now. 

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I have long maintained MPs should be paid the national average wage, reviewed yearly, plus expenses. With no possibility to advise private companies or in any way have a potential conflict of interest with those of your constituents.
Then we'll generally end up with less than average people running the country. I'm not really sure that's something we should be wishing for.

Also, it's impossible to rule out conflicts of interest, we're not exactly a nation of ascetics.
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6 hours ago, 101 said:

Labour don't have a stream of hard nosed trade union folk coming through with a history of getting stuff done. Politics now seems to be the reserve of largely talentless people which is a shame.

Politics is full of people who go to university, do a politics degree, come out and work in politics in some fashion, then want to become an MP. No experience of life outside out their 'political bubble'. Completely unsuited to actually being an MP.

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4 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

Then we'll generally end up with less than average people running the country. I'm not really sure that's something we should be wishing for.

Aye, just imagine what that would be like.

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