Members of Parliament

M.Ps are paid a salary of £57,000 a year. On top of this they claim expenses equivelant to another £120,000. Then you have the guaranteed pensions when they retire plus other perks.
Do we the taxpayers get value for money or are our M>Ps too expensive?

[dellym]

mps are too expensive..look at peter pike..he is absolutely useless..always has been, the amount spent on his "fact finding missions" to asia etc is just plain ridiculous!!!

[Mattylad]

hey, I can be useless, do nowt all day & make it look like I'm busy AND I fit well into a large pinstripe suit.
perhaps I should apply to be an MP?

[wayneyboy1942]

Someone once told me that in the USA they have aprox 200 million people to govern and have only 50 senitors, and same again for the congress. We have aprox 52 million and have over 630 mp's. It's called the gravey train.