Malcolm, I don’t agree with these bumper payments MPs receive when they are removed from Office, in the commercial world if you are sacked for a misdemeanour you most certainly do not get rewarded, same thing if you get demoted because you are not up to the job.

With regards to Pensions that grand old Labour Chancellor, one Gordon Brown, completely ruined one of the world’s best institutions, it has never recovered. I don’t agree that we should be paying into the gold plated pension pots of the Civil Servants so that they can receive final salary pensions that we, the tax payer, can never receive, the system doesn’t seem to apply to the Armed Force which I find very strange considering they put their life’s at risk for this Country, I don’t think their Pensions are great.

Years ago Civil Servants were considered to be low paid, this payment was made up with very substantial pension contributions, that is not the case these days so the current arrangements should cease.

No job, these days, is considered to be guaranteed for life so I don’t see why MPs who loose their seats should receive compensation, they all know what they are signing up to when putting themselves up for Election, the remuneration, plus all of the benefits they receive is adequate compensation for doing a job some of them, in my opinion, are not capable of doing, the current Chancellor springs to mind.

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