But we have to pay them the excessive salary's to attract the brightest and best...
I think there are many competent mps that’s why I think the answer is they are xxxntxThe problem isn’t the salary per se, it’s the selection process that requires you to be a political nutter who spends years in dull as dishwater meeting “paying your dues” or be so nuts you’re a Conservative Party member.
I think there are many competent mps that’s why I think the answer is they are xxxntx
Target on Rishi’s back. Probably just nutters stirring the pot, but would be hilarious if they got rid of him. Saw a pretty accurate comment on Twitter: “Sunak is simultaneously a terrible PM who will lose and the Tories best chance of avoiding annihilation”
Said it before but there is no-one who can unite the tories it's so fractured now.
Whoever they install will have someone gunning for them internally.
They aren't particularly well paid given the importance of what they do, or should do. Of course some of them aren't worth what they do get and frankly ones like Liz Truss, Peter Bone or Nadine Dorries wouldn't be worth minimum wage. However, that doesn't mean that the responsibility of the role shouldn't be better recognised.But we have to pay them the excessive salary's to attract the brightest and best...
That was largely my point. It's more to do with arse-licking than ability.The problem isn’t the salary per se, it’s the selection process that requires you to be a political nutter who spends years in dull as dishwater meeting “paying your dues” or be so nuts you’re a Conservative Party member.
Not amusing for the country as a whole, in fact quite the opposite.I think I’m right in saying Sunak is still the most popular Tory MP with the public (may have changed, I know his ratings have been dropping). So anyone they replace him with is almost certain to drag them down further.
I’m resigned to us not getting a GE until as late as possible so am able to find all this highly amusing instead of intensely distressing somehow.
I don't disagree with that.They aren't particularly well paid given the importance of what they do, or should do. Of course some of them aren't worth what they do get and frankly ones like Liz Truss, Peter Bone or Nadine Dorries wouldn't be worth minimum wage. However, that doesn't mean that the responsibility of the role shouldn't be better recognised.
Western society in general pays loads to people who don't deserve it and not enough to those who do.I don't disagree with that.
It just seems a poor argument that the pay will attract the brightest and best. It won't, even if it was higher. There will be those who want to do it to improve the country and make a difference, in which case the pay will be secondary to them, just as it is for nurses, teachers etc. The other people it attracts are those with a self-inflated ego on a power trip, and again money is secondary. For me an MP should be doing the job predominantly for the desire to make things better, not because the remuneration package is pretty tidy.
There are plenty of intelligent people who have jobs that earn less than an MP's salary, so why don't they do it? Because the nature of the job doesn't appeal to them. Making the role attractive to those whose primary incentive is the pay isn't going to be better.
Also if we want MP's to be able to relate to the average person on the street, is giving them a wage massively above that of the vast majority of the people going to help them to do that?
You could make an MP's salary £1m and it'd still be filled with inept charlatans. Just these would be greedier inept charlatans.
Not amusing for the country as a whole, in fact quite the opposite.
Harder now she's left the CityI like to find joy where I can. Can’t change it.
they know they are going to lose so it's civil war time, it's brilliantThere’s a suggestion that Truss’ “comeback” will hit the Tories in the polls. Maybe that was the point in the first place. An opportunity to stick the knife in Sunak.
There’s a suggestion that Truss’ “comeback” will hit the Tories in the polls. Maybe that was the point in the first place. An opportunity to stick the knife in Sunak.
Tice?There was some clown from the brexit party on 5live defending her this morning, what a clown he was.
Tice?
So now Sunak is going to split up his BEIS department, if there isn't enough cretins around his table as ministers, why not create some more, fucking halfwits
I agree with your first point. My issue is they will divide it up into three departments and then he will slot 3 of his cronies to head them, who won't have a clue on what is needed for this country, as you say more aligned to their spiv croniesI actually think creating a seperate department focusing on energy security is a good idea.
The problem is how much can they achieve when part of their remit will be to ensure whatever they come up with doesn't harm the profits of their spiv mates at the oil and utility companies?
How very sceptical of you.I actually think creating a seperate department focusing on energy security is a good idea.
The problem is how much can they achieve when part of their remit will be to ensure whatever they come up with doesn't harm the profits of their spiv mates at the oil and utility companies?
It was Lance ForemanTice?
oh the bloke who ruined his family salmon businessIt was Lance Foreman
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day…
30p Lee is real popular amongst hi sown party
Announcing it like a signing WTF
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Announcing it like a signing WTF
Hot off the press, but teachers at Rishi's old school will be striking over pensions.Rishi come closer, Rishi go back
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