Recently MP's voted on receiving a pay rise of around 11%. People were - to put it mildly - not overly happy about this. Despite not being an MP I'm very for it and here's why:
it gives bad business less of a chance to sway MP's.
If you work as an MP - and some of them work hard and all hours for their constituents - then you should be paid accordingly. You don't want them being swayed by promises of big pay cheques for being on the board of a company with sketchy morals and 'all' they have to do is to smooth through some legislation to allow - I don't know - them to stamp on kittens.
Of course each MP is a different collection of cells so each will behave differently. But money always skwews people a little bit. So let's make it easier for them to refuse it. Most MP's are fairly smart and the danger of being fairly smart is that it's easier to convince yourself that doing something wrong is, another way, absolutely fine.
I think it should be the same for the political parties: apparently if we all paid £23 a year extra in tax then the parties would be funded so wouldn't have top go, cap in hand, to potentially evil business people. Who give them money. All they have to do is smooth some legislation.
There's always blame on the current Government for being Etonians - like because they have personal wealth they don't understand people without wealth and have no regard for them. Of course they do. As mentioned above they are fairly smart. But they do have a party to keep in power and a life after power to think of.
Along those lines at the end of each parliament then the whole cabinet of the ruling party should have to leave. No clinging on for power and with only one term guaranteed there would be less dicking around.
On top of that if the pay is better you encourage better people into the job, surely.
So raise MP's pay, pay for the political parties and a clear out at every general election.
British Politics sorted: what's next?
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