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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That does actually sound like a good point.

Sitting in the cheap seats to look like one of the people, and costing a fortune in security, would no doubt attract equal viritrol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, his salary is ~~"only" £75,440 which isn't as much as I was expecting.~~ (see below) But he also gets £25k a year in free gifts according to the article so...

Give all MPs a pay rise of £10k and cut off all the expenses and bribery bullshit. And no, I won't be taking any questions on this one either, because we all know easy solutions suggested by people who know nothing about the problem always work first try

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data/salaries-of-members-of-his-majestys-government-april-2022-html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48497953

EDIT having looked again, it seems like he actually gets £170k P.A. (the prime minister's salary is on top of his MP's salary) so fuck him, he can afford his own football tickets.

EDIT 2 and presumably 4 years of not paying rent or bills, so double fuck him

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Prime Ministers get invited to all kinds of events, this isn't particularly remarkable in my view.