Helen

that`s the first time I`ve heard it called a `fair and appropriate compensation`.  I and many others would refer it to theiving from the taxpayer.

That is what it was. Even the respective party leaders have condemned the practice. I fear you may have to wait longer for DK to concede that any wrongdoing has taken place. No doubt you and I will now be told to go and live elsewhere if we don't like it!

Helen

Once I`ve reached my pittance pension age (unlike our MPs gold plated pensions) which I`ve work honestly for, for over 39yrs now, I will certainly be off like a shot.  Unlike our MPs I will not be able to afford the energy bills come retirement age and so warmer climates prevail.   

This guy is being paid £100000 to come out with these proposals. It appears to me they have just added yet another passenger onto the gravy train.

As for MPs getting a pay rise to 'compensate' them for not being able to fiddle their expenses they should be given a pay rise in line with the rest of the public services eg teachers, nurses, police, binmen, lunchtime supervisors. Since we will now be largely ruled by the EU do we need so many MPs and MEPs? Maybe now is the time to make constituencies larger by amalgamation thus reducing drastically the number of MPs we have. Maybe then we could afford to pay them a little more to take into account the wider area in their care whilst at the same time reducing the burden of pay and 'expenses' on the taxpayer.

Gary

There has been wrongdoing by some MPs, of all parties.

There still remains the issue of a fair compensation package of salaries & expenses for a job that requires an MP to be at Westminster and also in consultation with his constituents in his/her constituency be it as close as a division for Kensington & Chelsea or as far away as the Shetland Islands, as close as Stepney & Poplar or as far away as Penzance, as close as Clapham or as far away as Carlisle, or as close as Fulham or as far away as Rhyl.

Derek “The Monocled Mutineer” Kane

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Helen

I do not dispute your view that there is outrage.  In my view I feel the outrage is well over the top.  I go back to my "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" analogy.

For incumbent MPs who are standing again in 2010, their record on serving their constituents or not, and whether they were fairly compensated for genuine expenses or milked it, can be tested, by their electorate.

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The military already have similar systems which appear to work quite well. Such a system would negate any opportunity to have a moat cleaned, a duck house provided or any confusion over which is the main home. Perhaps this explains why MPs would not welcome any solution such as this.

Gary

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