Well it is after all a doddle of a job, with an enormous
salary and endless expenses, full of glitz and glamour so why wouldn’t there be
any number of people ready to take it on?
Ok so there is a high degree of responsibility, you are in
the public eye, get little or no thanks from anyone, have to take endless flak about
how useless / money grabbing / crocked you and your colleagues all are. You
spend every week split between your constituency and London which doesn’t make
for a great family life.
But you get paid a huge salary - £65,738 – maybe as much as the Deputy Head
of your local secondary school, half as much as a Group Director in RCT Council,
a couple of hundred pounds a year more than the Head of Strategy and PR there.
How outrageous is that? Surely everyone
will be fighting for such a job.
Of course there are genuine perks and if you are minded to
then you can abuse the system, and if you are lucky and you are, say, a Labour
in the valleys heartlands then the electorate will ignore all transgressions
and vote you back in regardless.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority have
announced that they think MPs should be given a 11% pay rise following the 2015
election, this will take the basic salary to £74,000.
All three main parties have condemned the announcement saying
that it is inappropriate at this time to think of such a thing. However, the
public – and indeed the media – only tend to take what they want out of such
stories and so MPs will take another battering and public confidence in the system
will drop again leading to more apathy.
So, who’s going to be lining up and putting their head above
the parapet in 2015 then? Doubt if we
will be caught in the rush.
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