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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:18 am ]
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David Cameron 'warned he cannot stop pay rise for MPs'

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David Cameron has been warned he will not be able to block plans for a big pay rise for MPs, the BBC understands.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is expected to say backbench MPs' £66,000 salaries should rise to over £70,000 after the next election.

The prime minister has said such a plan would be "unthinkable"
Author:  timark_uk [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:22 am ]
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Unthinkable? By who, exactly?
It's not unthinkable for the government, in the current finincial crisis, to want to line the pockets of all the MPs which can no longer claim for rediculous expenses by giving them a pay rise, when most of the rest of the workers in the country have been on a pay-freeze for the better part of a decade now.
That's not unthinkable for me at all.

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:49 am ]
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timark_uk wrote:
Unthinkable? By who, exactly?
It's not unthinkable for the government, in the current finincial crisis, to want to line the pockets of all the MPs which can no longer claim for rediculous expenses by giving them a pay rise, when most of the rest of the workers in the country have been on a pay-freeze for the better part of a decade now.
That's not unthinkable for me at all.

Mark

Apparently Cameron is against it publicly, though in private he probably loves the idea of another pile of dosh. Though as PM he will probably rake it in once he is out and can go on the public speaking circuit. Blair made £10 million a year as ex PM.


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Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:30 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Apparently Cameron is against it publicly, though in private he probably loves the idea of another pile of dosh.

Cameron is already a multi-millionaire, mostly due to extravagant tax-dodging by his ancestors (remember that next time he's trying to get some brownie points by slagging off Starbucks). He almost certainly won't even notice if his salary goes up by £10K a year, it's an amount that will be lost in the sums for him.

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Though as PM he will probably rake it in once he is out and can go on the public speaking circuit. Blair made £10 million a year as ex PM.

I'm not sure he'll make that much; he's nowhere near the public speaker Blair is, and he's got (so far at least) no particularly interesting experience to base such speaking/consultancy work on. I'm sure he'll do some but he won't be paid the rate Blair is and, frankly, he just doesn't need to do it anyway.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:44 am ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Though as PM he will probably rake it in once he is out and can go on the public speaking circuit. Blair made £10 million a year as ex PM.

I'm not sure he'll make that much; he's nowhere near the public speaker Blair is, and he's got (so far at least) no particularly interesting experience to base such speaking/consultancy work on. I'm sure he'll do some but he won't be paid the rate Blair is and, frankly, he just doesn't need to do it anyway.

I agree that he would not justify those levels of speaking fees right now, though it all depends on what he does between now and his leaving.

It is his wife who is the really wealthy one.


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Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:22 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
I agree that he would not justify those levels of speaking fees right now, though it all depends on what he does between now and his leaving.

Indeed. You get a big fee as a speaker if people want to hear what you have to say. Right now, I don't think there's much Cam could tell people they don't already know, especially the kind of people who are likely to be paying several grand for a seat at a corporate event.

Amnesia10 wrote:
It is his wife who is the really wealthy one.

Relatively speaking, yes.
Author:  mikepgood [ Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:05 am ]
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On the "nothing they can do " issue, they manage to ignore all the independant pay review bodies for years, such as armed forces, police and doctors/dentists.
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