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It's not a high wage for the responsibility and importance of the job. It's a pitiful wage.

My mate runs a branch of Toys r Us and earns about that. It's a toy shop. He is paid as much for running a toy shop that employs 40 or so people as an MP is for governing 15,000 people.

It's insane.

there are no checks on what an MP does. Back in the 80s/90s, there was one Tory MP who did not attend a single session of parliament across 2x terms. Your mate runs a toy shop, but will be directly answerable to someone, and will have targets set, tough ones if it's Toys R Us probably.

MPs have no targets and minimal accountability.