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Eejit
We pay our early to mid-range Sales Engineers more than an MP receives (although without counting an MP's expenses, which can be very significant, but are not meant to be compensation).
Our senior to principal SE's earn more than the prime-minister. Sometimes a lot more.
It's not contentious in our industry - if we don't pay that money, we don't get the good SE's.
Limiting the salary of an MP on idealogical grounds means you get ideologically driven people doing the job, rather than excellent administrators and leaders who may have risen quite high within a responsible role elsewhere - be that corporate, science, public sector etc.
Or, you get people who under the idealogical veneer are determined that they'll enter parliament to ensure that when they leave again they have, through their work, prepared a number of board-level seats with companies that they have helped (see privatisation) whilst an MP.
Half the number of MP's, bring in proportional representation, introduce a written constitution, make the upper chamber run for election (somehow) and pay MP's inline with for example what the big four pay their equivalent level.