Vocal Voices

Twelve of these are Labour,and Two Liberals given a payoff. When they lost their seats 8 Labourites received £54,000. MikeO''Brian £64,000, the rest £47,000 and £32,383, this was following them losing their Labour seats, however since then they have received lucrative pensions. Guess what.!!!they are all to stand again.
Sally Keeble and Joan Ryan and others were caught up in an expense scandals. Vote for these wasters at your peril. Westminster is corrupt from the roots upwards. I am voting Farage we need to get ris of these over fed, overpaid bleeders of the tax payers hard earned cash OUT With The Lot Of Them.

The average payment for those 220 who lost their seats in 2010 was £47,000 or £10.4m in total, so to pick on 14 is a bit disingenuous of the Mail.

The problem is that the system does not meet the needs of the present day.

If MPs came from all walks of life and covered a broad spectrum of the population then some sort of "retirement" system would be needed. If, say, a plumber or a technician gave up work in order to represent their community they would need some sort of safety net on the day they lost their seats. It is unlikely that their employers would keep their jobs open for them, and their skills may be out of date. Without a safety net we would not get the variety......

..... And there lies today's problem. The vast majority of modern MPs are self-financed, or rich if you want to put it another way. Many of them see politics as a career for life rather than a vocation. If they get knocked out in one election they come back for the next, and maybe in another seat. These people do not need the safety net, or not one with such large payouts.

Personally I would stop career politicians by limiting the number of parliaments they can sit in, or limiting the number of consecutive parliaments to two, plus for every one they sit in they must miss the same number - sit in one, sit out one: sit in two, sit out two. And to bring in "ordinary" people I would have a reasonably generous safety net, but one suitably means-tested.

In a statement about his stance on Business and tax avoidance Miliband is saying

“I am not going to back down.” He said: “The time has finally come to put an end to a society in which one group of people can play by different rules to the rest.”

So Mr Miliband. Stand in front of the mirror and repeat that. Over and over and over again until the hypocrisy sinks in....

KateLM wrote: I am voting Farage we need to get rid of these over-fed, over-paid bleeders of the tax payers' hard earned cash. OUT With The Lot Of Them.

Those are my views, too.

Out with the bleeders!