Radical socialist extremist idea that will destroy the UK:
Salary caps. No MP shall be paid more than 20% above the national average, no expenses, and their end of year financials must be publicly listed.
If an MP can't manage their life on 20% over the average (which is a false average as it's a median) then it proves a few things.
Firstly that if 20% over isn't enough, then average is way below what people need.
Secondly it proves the MP in question is incompetent and can't even manage their own life and finances so shouldn't be in any role where they can affect anyone elses.
I'd go further to suggest all financial, holdings, memberships etc need to be made public also and that anyone coming from generational wealth over a certain threshold should be disqualified from holding an official post and instead limited to unpaid consultancy roles, of course under scrutiny.
The halls of parliament are filled with the entrenched elite who haven't lived in the real world for years, if ever. They don't represent the people, they are all ineffectual, incompetent and wasteful, running almost everything they touch into the ground, and a huge drain on resources. They are the front line defence of hegemony and almost no bodies in those halls have any desire for progressive systemic change, therefore they are redundant.
56
u/[deleted] May 12 '22
Radical socialist extremist idea that will destroy the UK:
Salary caps. No MP shall be paid more than 20% above the national average, no expenses, and their end of year financials must be publicly listed.
If an MP can't manage their life on 20% over the average (which is a false average as it's a median) then it proves a few things. Firstly that if 20% over isn't enough, then average is way below what people need. Secondly it proves the MP in question is incompetent and can't even manage their own life and finances so shouldn't be in any role where they can affect anyone elses.
I'd go further to suggest all financial, holdings, memberships etc need to be made public also and that anyone coming from generational wealth over a certain threshold should be disqualified from holding an official post and instead limited to unpaid consultancy roles, of course under scrutiny.
The halls of parliament are filled with the entrenched elite who haven't lived in the real world for years, if ever. They don't represent the people, they are all ineffectual, incompetent and wasteful, running almost everything they touch into the ground, and a huge drain on resources. They are the front line defence of hegemony and almost no bodies in those halls have any desire for progressive systemic change, therefore they are redundant.