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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I may be one of very few people who are quite relaxed about this. If you want your MPs to be honest, pay them a decent salary.
     
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  2. It'sOnlyAGame

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    I'm relaxed about the salary but who else gets a 3.1% rise these days? And don't they vote for it themselves?
     
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  3. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace Forum Moderator

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    I agree, but they shouldn't be allowed to have any other income such as stocks and shares or directorships etc.
     
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  4. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Yeah, I’d like to see much tighter controls on other income, especially directorships, and much closer monitoring of invitations they receive from lobby groups etc.
     
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    Yet another allegation about Patel. This time that she threw a folder in the face of a civil servant. She can't last much longer surely?
     
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  6. San Tejón

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    She’s fine. Johnson said.
     
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    Me :)

    Private sector, just been given a 3% pay rise form April 2020....weirdly though, I have just accepted voluntary redundancy and my redundancy pay is based on my salary in April :)

    To be fair they know that and I think that is one of the reasons they are doing it :)

    #HappyDays
     
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  9. It'sOnlyAGame

    It'sOnlyAGame Well-Known Member

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    Maybe I'm out of touch with pay levels these days, is that a common amount?

    Good for you No7, retirement at 50. What are you going to do with yourself?
     
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  10. thereisonlyoneno7

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    Not quite retirement...pocketing the money and hopefully sorted within 2-3 months. Atlanta may beckon soon :)
     
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  11. The Ides of March

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    That was home for the Stax récord label, but I will look it up. Didn't Martin Luther King have a connection with this City, and in same city God set a 400m récord in that summer's Olympics, until it was blown to bits in Rio four years ago.
     
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  12. thereisonlyoneno7

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    MLK was from the Atlanta area - I have visited his home and the church where he preached. I'm an atheist, but very, very moving place. MLK is probably one of the humans I admire the most ever.
     
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    On the news that Boris is to become a dad again, he has been told he has to get married again ..............can’t have two bastards at No 10.
     
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  14. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace Forum Moderator

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    Not too soon hopefully !
     
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  16. Number 1 Jasper

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    This year is the third year in a row where we get 3% . Last year of a three year deal . Not sure what the next one will be .

    Private Sector .
     
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  17. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace Forum Moderator

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    Apparently, two thirds of Tory party members believe that Sharia law exists in the UK.
    Unfortunately the video, about the 300 islamaphobia complaints against the Tory party, I tried to attach won’t stick.
     
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  20. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    Just about sums up the Brexit trade talks.

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