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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.

MPs don't govern their constituents, they are their representatives.
£60,000 is fuck all these days. All the self-employed tradesmen I drink with are on well north of that....