So WE are now paying back the money the Govt stole from us??

[onearmedbandit]

If I heard correctly today Labour are giving their MP's a payrise to help ease the burden of paying back the money that was overspent. So if I'm not mistaken, we pay their salaries (fair enough) but to give themselves more for no reason other than to pay back the overspent money just reeks of, well I don't need to say.

This is just unbelievable (hmm, maybe not so much). For the first time in my life I thought to myself today it's time to start considering how much I really want to stay in this country. Sure the grass isn't always greener, but to be lining these corrupt cunts pockets makes me sick.

Time for an overthrow?

[sAsLEX]

Its called corruption


And they are in late tonight passing a law to make the fact that they stole a million of OUR dollars legal to avoid paying it back!

Fuckin thieves!

[Finn]

I'm not one who normally gets upset with this government, but this time they've gone too far. I'm very cross.

I don't think I'll be voting for Labour next election.

[James Deuce]

No the MPS are taking a 5% pay cut.

[Squeak the Rat]

So they get the payrise this year to pay for corrupt practices, and pocket the extra next year.

I've been trying to view it as just politics, but I'm starting to develop a rather poor opinion of its members. They know they are ripping off the taxpayer and continue to do it willingly. Laubour ministers, you are thieving scum, no wonder you give benefits and easier sentences to your type in society.

[sAsLEX]

No the MPS are taking a 5% pay cut.

No they are allocating 5% of their current pay to help fund the .85 million dollars Labour owes, this will raise roughly a 1/3 of that value. But they are also giving themselves a pay rise, to go with helen's one lats year of 9.6% and the backbenchers of 4%, and that will be backdated till the 1st of july.

Yip that 5% pay cut is really going to effect them, hell just get some more refuges to pay you to sneak them in .....

[Jonathan]

No the MPS are taking a 5% pay cut.

Oh well, back to my original Guy Fawkes plans...

[Jonathan]

No they are allocating 5% of their current pay to help fund the .85 million dollars Labour owes, this will raise roughly a 1/3 of that value. But they are also giving themselves a pay rise, to go with helen's one lats year of 9.6% and the backbenchers of 4%, and that will be backdated till the 1st of july.

Yip that 5% pay cut is really going to effect them, hell just get some more refuges to pay you to sneak them in .....

Then again...

[James Deuce]

No they are allocating 5% of their current pay to help fund the .85 million dollars Labour owes, this will raise roughly a 1/3 of that value. But they are also giving themselves a pay rise, to go with helen's one lats year of 9.6% and the backbenchers of 4%, and that will be backdated till the 1st of july.

Yip that 5% pay cut is really going to effect them, hell just get some more refuges to pay you to sneak them in .....

That's a change from the Stuff article I saw earlier.

I'm not voting for anyone currently sitting in the house during this term.

Time for a clean out.

[avgas]

Remember, Remember
The 5th of November

[RantyDave]

So if I'm not mistaken, we pay their salaries (fair enough)

Fair enough? A back bench MP with no additional responsibilities has a basic pay of $118k. MP's also get an allowance for running an out-of-Parliament office, $55k/year if you're a constituency MP, $34k if you're on list. Just what a list MP is doing out of parliament for $34k a year is a mystery to me. I guess you could drink that much, but you'd have to work at it.

Helen Clarke is on $347k. Cullen, a shade under a quarter mill. Even Winston Fucking Peters is on $183k ... plus, of course, the baubles of office.

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2005/12/mp_pay_increases.html

Fair enough? Doesn't sound fair enough to me. The wankers should be on national average wage and not one penny more. Their partners should have to go to work so they can afford the mortgage. They should have to worry about their credit card bill from time to time. Or getting the car WOF'd. Or how much it's going to cost to fill the car. Or park it. Why. WHY do we pay them so much? I don't care that this represents what they might get with similar age/experience at (say) Telescum - perhaps we should have our MP's on a near subsitence survival so at least we know they're doing it for the right reasons.

Dave

[James Deuce]

MPs didn't used to get paid.

[onearmedbandit]

No the MPS are taking a 5% pay cut.

Heard it today on the news, posted about it. Just did a search and while I found this page the link was dead. Couldn't find anymore links about it however......[cue twilight zone music]

[onearmedbandit]

Fair enough? A back b..................... we know they're doing it for the right reasons.

Dave

Ok ok, calm down. I wasn't agreeing with what they get paid, nor their regular high payrises, you read too much into my statement.

[The_Dover]

vote Dover for parliament.

you'll then get value for your 118k bucks a year.

and I GUARANTEE you I will drink the 34k for whatever the hell it is.

easy peasy.