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Competent administrators aren’t earning multiples of the UK average salary. If you’re talking more about departmental leadership, £80k is still very high in many industries.
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If you’re talking more about departmental leadership
I don't think we are talking about departmental leadership, we're talking about the position of MP - certainly at ministerial level - being significantly higher than that.
£80K is high nationaly but, as has been said, not high for a leadership position at any number of large companies.
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£80k is still very high in many industries.
I can’t even fathom what we can spend that much money on.
christianSpaceman
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I find the idea that a qualifier to be an MP is to be prepared to sacrifice their own situation bizarre.
Turns the position into a quasi-religeous thing, surely? Martyr to the cause of public service.
If we instead looked for competent administrators with a firm grasp of how to make something work, instead of looking for those with a religious fervour to drive free-market ideals without ever having made said ideals work might that not be better?