Post subject: Re: Christmas Cheer! MPs' pay to go up 11%
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:53 pm
cod'ead
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Richie wrote:But would the applicants be any good? Is the skill set of a recently qualified doctor, majority of teachers or lawyers adequate for that kind of position?
If the incumbents are any indicator of required skills, I reckon I could get 650 equally qualified candidates straight off the dole queue
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Post subject: Re: Christmas Cheer! MPs' pay to go up 11%
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:06 pm
Richie
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cod'ead wrote:If the incumbents are any indicator of required skills, I reckon I could get 650 equally qualified candidates straight off the dole queue
Post subject: Re: Christmas Cheer! MPs' pay to go up 11%
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:13 pm
Ferocious Aardvark
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Richie wrote:But would the applicants be any good? Is the skill set of a recently qualified doctor, majority of teachers or lawyers adequate for that kind of position?
You're so spot on. I find it hard to believe that there is anybody in the world, let alone the UK, who would come close to matching the present or past MP skill sets of the likes of Michael Gove, Jacqui Smith, Hazel Blears, Patrick Mercer, Nadine Dorries, Keith Vaz or Eric Pickles, toi name but a smidgeon. We are just lucky to have them.
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Post subject: Re: Christmas Cheer! MPs' pay to go up 11%
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:24 pm
cod'ead
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Joined: May 25 2002 Posts: 37704 Location: Zummerzet, where the zoider apples grow
shinymcshine wrote:Is there a performance related pay / disciplinary element linked to meeting their manifesto "promises" / local issue "pledges" ?
Don't be silly.
In fact if you have a look through the new Health Bill, they've actually managed to slip in a couple of clauses that absolve the Secretary of State for Health of any responsibilty towards the NHS and following Hunt losing a couple of Judicial Reviews on closing hospitals/A&E departments, he's now seeking statutory authority to close ANY hospital/department as he sees fit without any recourse to law.
Upholders of democracy my 'arris
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
Post subject: Re: Christmas Cheer! MPs' pay to go up 11%
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:26 pm
Richie
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Joined: Dec 22 2001 Posts: 17134 Location: Johannesberg, South Africa
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:You're so spot on. I find it hard to believe that there is anybody in the world, let alone the UK, who would come close to matching the present or past MP skill sets of the likes of Michael Gove, Jacqui Smith, Hazel Blears, Patrick Mercer, Nadine Dorries, Keith Vaz or Eric Pickles, toi name but a smidgeon. We are just lucky to have them.
Assuming you are being sarcastic, how do you propose we get better people those roles?
Post subject: Re: Christmas Cheer! MPs' pay to go up 11%
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:08 pm
rover49
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Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
I was listening to three MP's on Radio 5 after PMQ's the other day and I was flabbagasted to hear all of them singing from the same hymn sheet, pity it was all of them saying that it was out of their hands and they 'had' to receive it. Remember what happened when the 'independent' police pay review was put before government. Hypocrites.
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Why are you all getting so bent out of shape about it? It's not their fault, the poor souls are being FORCED into this measly 7.5k p/a increase, they don't WANT it.. do they?
Gah, everybody in here is so quick to blame the MP's for everything. They will do everything they can to avoid their rise. Except trying to avoid the rise.
Now let them get back to not doing their jobs and go and turn your heating off, It's been on for 5 minutes and that's all you can afford.
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