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not sure why train drivers would be quoted as a comparison - my son is a train driver and whilst the pay is good they work hard for it - very unsocial hours, running risks of yobs - fellow train driver in hospital as we speak after having a brick lobbed through his windscreen on an HST - and remember, very often they are transporting more passengers than some airlines - have no idea what a pilot earns but I bet it's more than a train driver

For 40 years I saved & thought I had made provision for my retirement.
Then,over the past 5 years, everything has gone pear shaped, not just for me, but for all pensioners.
I now live on under 700 gdp per month out of which almost 500 goes in rent & bills.
I would love to see the poor underpaid MPs who in part have put me in this situation, live on less than 8.000 per year & pay all their own expenses.

Nolls from Harrogate - I am currently involved in a couple of battles with, lets say the state, so I would not wish to do anything that might come back to bite me on the bum, that aside it would be a pointless exercise.

Porkie_Pie - Roy I agree with your 3 points posted on 2 Jun 2013 @ 20:40

RolloTheRed - I have never been a supporter of keeping The Red Flag Flying, I am against an unelected Upper House but favour an Upper House with a mix of elected and non-elected members, and I think that being an MP should be a full time job. As to the salaries of chief executives in local government and public services such as the NHS the amounts they are paid is staggering and beggar belief.

On the issue of irrational and contradictory decisions, hardly a day passes that I do not read what government is going to do, to sort out this or sort out that, and all we seem to get is a raft of statements and policies in what I call knee jerk responses to whatever the news headline of the day is. To often these policies are nothing more than a re-launch of previous statements and policies that had been shelved in the hope the problems would go away, for example:-

1) Following the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich Teresa May announced she was going to deal with the problems of radicalisation and extremism.

Well surprise surprise - on the 7th June 2011 she made a statement detailing what the government was going to do to tackle these issues. She said in that statement "We must not only arrest and prosecute those who breach the law, but we must stop people being drawn into terrorist-related activity in the first place."

2) In response to the latest scandal, that of taking money to ask questions, Nick Clegg has said that the government will introduce legislation to provide for a register of lobbyists, and to allow the ordinary voter to be able to remove MP's found guilty of misconduct.

Well surprise surprise - in 2010 both David Cameron and Nick Clegg promised in the Coalition agreement to introduce a register of lobbyists, and to introduce legislation to allow for the ordinary voter to be able to remove MP's found guilty of misconduct.

Dear All That have replied ,

Apart from the few who talk of train drivers wages , etc,

I THINK THE MAJORITY OF US AGREE,
THEY DO NOT LIVE IN THE WORLD WE HAVE TO !

As one of you said , its their choice of work , so try and be honest even if only a bit ,
THINK OF THOSE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE RE-PRESENTING !