There are so many things I’d like to write about. Can you build a community around where you are, or do you have to find one to move into?
Do MPs go through a special process to lose touch with any semblance of reality as they’re elected? I’ve been reading about their pay expectations. 75000 a year for back bench MPs, but they won’t get dinner expenses any more. And no more golden handshake if they aren’t reelected though they may get a redundancy package.
I used to work for a charity that had to bid for contracts yearly. If they didn’t win the contract I didn’t have a job. I didn’t get any redundancy. How is this different? Surely it’s a fixed term employment and if you don’t get reelected, you don’t get reelected?
Alongside this there was a debate today about the cumulative impact assessment that should have taken place before the smash and grab raid on disability and other benefits. I picked up some wonderful snippets via twitter. One was the disability minister saying that those assessments are very inaccurate. Really? Do them better then!
The PM was telling porkies during PMQs too. Carers requiring second bedroom are exempt from the bedroom tax apparently. Not if they’re married to the person they are caring for 🙁 does he really not know? Do other MPs believe him or do they just not care enough to do the research?
I don’t know what the government think they are playing at any more. It’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that austerity isn’t working. Paying people more would help more as they’d spend it and it would go around the economy more. I’m starting to read that other places now, fairly sure I’ve been saying it for a while.
We need a different way of thinking and I don’t think any politicians have it. Do we really need them? Or in this technological age couldn’t we come up with a better form of democracy?
Just wondering.
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