Friday 6 July 2007
"The Labourer Is Worthy Of His Hire"
Gordon Brown will recognise this quotation. It is, in turn, the basis for the excellent trade union principle of “the rate for the job”. Yet we now have fully ten Ministers without salaries. Is it just that they do not need the money, as is certainly the case with some of them, and which sets the extremely dangerous precedent of favouring those in that fortunate position? Or is each of the poor dears having to make do on an MP’s fifty-nine thousand pounds per annum plus generous expenses?
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Home blogging is killing politics
ReplyDeleteOh dear Miles. Astro turfing is killing blogging.
ReplyDeleteAnyway David as you begin to relate these "ministers" fall into several categories. Those that have declined the cash, those that haven't declined it but can afford to do without, and some very junior whips who ARE NOT ministers by any stretch of the imagination.
£59,000 is not a bad salary, the expenses mostly pay for staff but can be used to create capital gains on property too, but even so the whole package is surpassed by quite a lot of those with professional jobs.
Vice Chancellors can get double as can council leaders. And let's not get into industry.
Council Leaders?
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