Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Tory MP, Sir Patrick Cormack gets out the begging bowl for more pay but he's no Oliver Twist!


Dear All

Even before the expenses scandal was brought to the fore, MPs pay was a touchy subject.

Now a senior Conservative has broke cover and called for MPs' pay to be doubled.

He wants MPs to be paid circa £130k a year and in return; he wants to scrap the second home allowance.

Not a chance!

I do believe that Sir Patrick Cormack has a point; MPs should receive an proper increase in pay somewhere around the £90k.

In return for an MP getting this type of rise then it should be made clear that the second paid job racket should end.

Cormack has since been condemned as "out of touch" by the Labour Party, some of their MPs have been involved in claiming for mortgages that don’t exist and milking the system mercilessly so wring out every penny for themselves.

Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesman Ed Davey said the veteran Tory "must be living on Planet Zog".

I wonder how much his travel expenses are from there?

Sir Patrick Cormack made this call in a submission to the Committee on Standards in Public Life, chaired by Sir Christopher Kelly. This is the Commission which will ensure that MPs don’t lose out too much.

Sir Patrick says that his proposal could be seen as "politically unacceptable".

I think he forgot to mention publicly as well!

In an odd statement he said that "reluctantly" concluded that it was the best way to restore public confidence in Parliament.

No, the best ways to restore trust is to kick out everyone involved in abuse and put in place staff at the Fees Office who has the ability to think and say NO!

At present the will of the people is firmly against MPs being paid more and even paid properly but that is down to the systematic abuse that has become a culture in Westminister.

This sudden concern for more dosh by Cormack is based on the belief that he thinks that the current MP's salary was "so low in absolute and relative terms" that members of the professional and business classes would be deterred from entering Parliament.

Given the multi-millionaires there currently skinning the system; I don’t see that as a viable argument.

Finally, what unbelievable bad timing by Sir Patrick Cormack to bring the begging bowl to the public domain; he isn’t Oliver Twist.

Yours sincerely

George LairdThe Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

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