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English MP's To Get £10'000 A Year Increase..

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    #2
    McDermotX
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    Feck that !! I'm already shelling out for the Irish ones.

    We should be on the streets protesting etc etc etc etc .........


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    foxy06
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    This isn't England


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    #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The average MP will still make less than the average TD after the increase, so I'd say your anger is misplaced tbh!


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    mike65
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    Desperate attempt to get a Brit thread onto front page of AH! Only about another 20k a year until they catch the teachers and farmers in de Dail.


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    MarkyMark22
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    The average MP will still make less than the average TD after the increase, so I'd say your anger is misplaced tbh!

    Two wrongs don't make a right..


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    wandatowell
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    3 lefts make a right


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    #8
    Micky Dolenz
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    I've enough to be worrying about than what military police earn in England.


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    the groutch
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    foxy06 wrote: »
    This isn't England

    THIS IS SPARTA!


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    [Deleted User]
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    wandatowell wrote: »
    3 lefts make a right

    I would have thought that thee lefts eventually make a circle.


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    MarkyMark22
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭MarkyMark22


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would have thought that thee lefts eventually make a circle.

    Some kind of C shape.


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    My name is URL
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    MarkyMark22 wrote: »
    Two wrongs don't make a right..

    No but look at it this way, on average each MP represents about 90,000 constituents. Each of our TDs only represent an average of around 30,000, yet they make far more, are entitled to vastly greater expense allowances and get a bonus for being super-sound and actually turning up at work to do the job they're paid to do. An effing bonus!... can you imagine being offered a bonus just for turning up at work when you're expected to?!

    I'm no maths genius but something doesn't add up there. What is a fair salary in your view? Imo, the English system seems a lot more in touch with reality than our own.


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    MarkyMark22
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    No but look at it this way, on average each MP represents about 90,000 constituents. Each of our TDs only represent an average of around 30,000, yet they make far more, are entitled to vastly greater expense allowances and get a bonus for being super-sound and actually turning up at work to do the job they're paid to do. An effing bonus!... can you imagine being offered a bonus just for turning up at work when you're expected to?!

    I'm no maths genius but something doesn't add up there. What is a fair salary in your view? Imo, the English system seems a lot more in touch with reality than our own.

    I completely understand what you're saying, and agree with it.

    I'm just saying there are 650 MP's in Westminster, £10K each comes to £6,500,000 a year.

    This is all whilst cretins like Iain Duncan Smith says people should have no problem living on £53 a week.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/01/iain-duncan-smith-live-benefits


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    bnt
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    Just the English MPs? Not the ones from Wales, Scotland, or the North? That's going to go down well in Edinburgh ... :eek:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    wandatowell
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would have thought that thee lefts eventually make a circle.

    nah, one very long Left makes a circle


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    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    MarkyMark22 wrote: »
    Two wrongs don't make a right..
    wandatowell wrote: »
    3 lefts make a right
    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would have thought that thee lefts eventually make a circle.
    MarkyMark22 wrote: »
    Some kind of C shape.
    wandatowell wrote: »
    nah, one very long Left makes a circle

    This is shaping up to be a riveting thread - can someone please re-name the thread 'The Right Way to Make a Left-Sided Circle'.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,636 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Look at what happens to MP's caught fiddling expenses.

    Could you ever imagine that sort of accountability here ?


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    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    This is shaping up to be a riveting thread - can someone please re-name the thread 'The Right Way to Make a Left-Sided Circle'.

    You know you can make a Right-Sided Circle too ya?



    Left or right, neither is wrong or right


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    dd972
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    Don't you mean British MP's, the English still haven't grown a pair and thrown off their British oppressors ;)


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