Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008
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Evenind Standard: Crunch, what crunch? MPs ask for 21% rise
MPs were today revealed to be asking for a 21 per cent pay rise - worth £13,180. Their demand caused outrage on a day the economy fell deeper into crisis, with inflation bursting its official ceiling to hit 3.3 per cent. It came as the Government is ordering ordinary people to show pay restraint.
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1. notaneconomicsguru said...
Does anyone know if the ca £61k quoted as their current salary is actually correct. I remember about 10 years ago they got a really big and I thought that it went up to around about £60k back then.
2. Sneaker said...
Forget CPI or RPI. We now have a REAL, TRUE, RELIABLY measure of inflation: MPI
3. alan said...
Museum staff 1.5%, Police 1.9%.
Says it all, really!
4. hpwatcher said...
all politicians are the same ....self, self, SELF!!!!
5. k said...
It can be more. If you chair any comittee's you can receive a salary for that. Then there's the expenses.....
6. Sharpe said...
21% is about fair given the current level of inflation.
muggins who end up getting less need to organise into unions and strike - the police shamelessly capitulated - they have all the power in the world to get 20% as well - organise
7. planning4acrash said...
It is because MP's recognise that 21% is about the rate of money supply growth!!! To discover the real rate of inflation, just look at the pay rise awarded to MP's. Right and simple and spot on.
8. planning4acrash said...
Forget price increases, the money supply growth also includes the amount that our pensions, wages and savings are being devalued by an inflated Sterling.
9. planning4acrash said...
10. planning4acrash said...
What you should know about inflation For more info go to the economic papers link on the mainpage and look at Ludwig von Mises. Also, look at this: Ron Paul runs rings around the Feral Reserve!
11. yoyo1 said...
p4c
well done, you said actual inflation was 20% some weeks ago.
12. little professor said...
Nurses just got screwed into signing a 3 year deal equivalent to 2.3% p.a.
Doctors are getting 1.9% (that doesn't include the greedy GPs, just the hospital doctors)
This is seriously messed up.
13. harold said...
A 21 per cent rise for voting away our civil liberties like sheep? I think not. How about a 21 per cent cut?
14. Yerhavingalaugh said...
And they wonder why the turn-out at elections is so low. What sort of example is this setting our young people who are so turned off by politics it is not true? If this goes through I may well consider standing in my local constituency next time round on the single issue of MPs' salary increases to be fixed at 1% below CPI for the duration of the next Parliament.
15. angonamo said...
21% - are they kidding us. We need a revolution. Does anyone know if HPC has a paramilitary wing ? Here's my top 10 for who I'd shoot first ...
1 - GB
2 - AD
3 - MK (aka Penfold)
4 - David Bendover (sorry I mean Benchwarmer, erm benchflaur) - oh sod it, all of the MPC
5 - Thirsty Kirstie
6 - The bloke next door - he's got nothing to do with HPI or oil going up, he's just a knob
7 - Oh yeah, my old land lady.
8 - Applegarth - that bloke from Northern Rock - that didn't do anything wrong as the Cresit Crunch thing was all unforeseen
9 - Misters Bradford and Bingley (Only counts as one bullet)
10 - My Mother in Law, well ... you would do if you were gonna get locked up anyway.
mmmmm, feeling better already.
16. Advokat said...
David and his mates rule OK
17. Fatjock said...
21%!!! For what??
Eleven years of incompetence and lies.
Tell them to go on strike, no-one will notice whether these wasters turn up for work or not.
18. Doghouse said...
I work in the NHS and could never understand why all of the seperate public bodies get different pay awards...police, nhs, armed forces, teachers, council workers etc should all get the same pay increase. All the govt do is play one group off against the other...one year the nhs gets a decent deal while everyone else gets screwed...the next year the police are in favour (my guess is that they are deliberately divisive as the public sector group as a whole would wield too much power - and they use headline grabbing pay increases to gain publicity)
And I suggest if they want to gain any respect at all, that MPs should announce that their pay increases will also be classed as public sector pay and get the same rate as everyone else.