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Presumably those people have talent, skills and experience though.
The skill/talent you need most as an MP is for confident blagging - seems to be transferable to most jobs in the private sector at least.
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Its a job that might make you delay getting cancer treatment so you can vote and comes with a very non zero chance of being murdered by the people you work for.
We get what we pay for.
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No-one wants to pay MPs a market rate so you end up with Nadine Dorries and Andrew Bridgen. Which reinforces the desire not to pay MPs a market rate.
I think there are something like 5-10,000 civil servants alone earning more than an MP and that before you go out to the NHS and other bodies.