MPs salary boost 'double rise of NHS workers'

This news will warm your cockles today…MPs will receive a 2.9% pay increase from April, taking their salary from £84,144 to £86,584.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), which sets MPs’ pay, said this was in line with the average public sector workers’ rise in 2022/23.

Announcing the rise, Richard Lloyd, Ipsa’s chairman, said: “In confirming MPs’ pay for next year, we have once again considered very carefully the extremely difficult economic circumstances, the Government’s evolving approach to public sector pay in the light of forecasted rates of inflation, and the principle that MPs’ pay should be reflective of their responsibility in our democracy.”

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According to Nursing Notes since 2010 the pay of nurses has risen by just £5,400 while MPs received a staggering £20,846.

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Seems fair…

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Here are a few thoughts on the pay rise!

The Government will try to compare MP’s 2.9% pay rise to all the other public servants.

But Nurses/Paramedics don’t get free food, accommodation, travel, energy, mobile phones and contracts, free internet, free tv subscriptions…
— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) February 9, 2023

https://twitter.com/barrett38337513/status/1623930749643784192

“We can’t bake in inflation” says Education Secretary Gillian Keegan after MP’s have slapped themselves on the back with a £2,200 a year pay rise and uncapped bonuses for millionaire bankers
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) February 1, 2023

Guess who doesn't need to Strike to get a £2,200 pay rise this year? Of course it's the very UK MP's, who are banning strikes to keep UK workers on the Poverty line.
I Guess their £85,000 a year, + all the shady Donations + all their expenses paid for, is just hard to get by on pic.twitter.com/aXhpIn7EAD
— Michael Walsh (@thatbloodyMikey) February 2, 2023

If MP’s get a £2k pay rise for 'dramatically increased' duties last year”, what the hell do NHS staff and Teachers deserve? !!!
— Paul Brown (@pau1_br0wn) February 2, 2023

If you're an MP who's received a 28% pay rise since 2010, and have your meals subsidised by the taxpayer, you're in no position to lecture a nurse who, since 2010, earns £5,000 less in real-terms about pay restraint. There's plenty of money; it's just going to the wrong places.
— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) February 6, 2023

Has any Uk Journalist ask the following?
In 2010 MP’s pay was £65,738.
In 2022 MP’s pay was £84,144.
That’s almost a 28% pay rise.
Why is it during that time, Teachers, Firefighters and Nurses pay has fallen by 13%?
— Sarah Wright #FBPE (@sarahhw65) February 2, 2023

Fine – then they should stop all expenses/subsidies related to food, drink, heating, second homes and furnishing them.

transport, staff and office expenses only – like every other business does.
— Mike Dailly™ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸💙 (@mdf200) February 9, 2023

https://twitter.com/HeymanSolanki/status/1621503227186520065

10.

Nurses have to pay to park at the hospitals they work. Meanwhile "MPs can claim for rent or hotel accommodation as well as expenses for a second home if they are not already receiving rent free London accommodation" https://t.co/LRWXlgQYRj
— D.Emery (@DemeryUK) February 9, 2023

Or simply this?