bladebeer Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Lib dem peer says that £300 per day is just not enough to live on .Just turn up at the house of Lords and pocket £300.What chance have the rest of us got with statements like this coming from our lawmakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza c Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 we cant vote them in, but we can also vote them out! people don't vote because they are not in touch with the normal working joe blogs. what makes me laugh is again all the expenses the mp's claim, I bet there are loads of people in Sheffield who work in another city ie Manchester,london, Birmingham, but there train fare/petrol will be paid for by their wages, not on top of what they already get paid. £300 per day not enough, what planet are these people on?, may I suggest a planet that can only be reached by a very power rocket built by NASA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owltillidie Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 we cant vote them in, but we can also vote them out! people don't vote because they are not in touch with the normal working joe blogs. what makes me laugh is again all the expenses the mp's claim, I bet there are loads of people in Sheffield who work in another city ie Manchester,london, Birmingham, but there train fare/petrol will be paid for by their wages, not on top of what they already get paid. £300 per day not enough, what planet are these people on?, may I suggest a planet that can only be reached by a very power rocket built by NASA! All because you are low earner and have no idea of the higher class people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Even travelling round the country every day, eating out every day and smoking 100 fags a day wouldn't cost £300 a day! I honestly don't know what you would need to be doing to spend £300 a day?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Even travelling round the country every day, eating out every day and smoking 100 fags a day wouldn't cost £300 a day! I honestly don't know what you would need to be doing to spend £300 a day?! Does the £300 include a nights accommodation in that London? A link from the OP may help. If I, for one, have a meeting, or whatever, in a different city then I will claim expenses for travel, food and, if required, accommodation. A day and night in London would be more than £300, far more. My last trip, booked at the last minute, was over £200 for the train down alone. jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Does the £300 include a nights accommodation in that London? A link from the OP may help. jb If it does, then £300 a day is probably right, but the OP and the statement in general is very misleading. Still, If our MP's are costing us over £300 a day, something needs to change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Out of that £300 - which you only get for the days that you attend a full sitting it's not every day you have to fund travel expense hotel or other overnight meals office - including paying any staff Plus running your house back home if you have one. TBH £300 is probably the bare minimum you could pay them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 we cant vote them in, but we can also vote them out! people don't vote because they are not in touch with the normal working joe blogs. what makes me laugh is again all the expenses the mp's claim, I bet there are loads of people in Sheffield who work in another city ie Manchester,london, Birmingham, but there train fare/petrol will be paid for by their wages, not on top of what they already get paid. £300 per day not enough, what planet are these people on?, may I suggest a planet that can only be reached by a very power rocket built by NASA! You can vote out a member of the House of Lords? Good luck with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 If it does, then £300 a day is probably right, but the OP and the statement in general is very misleading. Still, If our MP's are costing us over £300 a day, something needs to change! Isn't it about peers and not MPs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) This is the article from the DM. Official figures show that Lady Grender, a former PR executive and media pundit, attended the Lords on 81 days in her first six months and claimed £20,850 in attendance allowances in that time. The 2013-2014 session sat for a total of 149 days, with a average of 6hrs 47 min per day. If you were to attend every session this would net you £44,700 so her £20,850 for six months indicates a pretty high attendance. To put it in perspective someone working full time with the basic holiday entitlement would work 232 days a year, some 83 days more than a peer attending full time at the house of Lords. Personally I think £44,700 is a pretty crap wage for London and would need topping up with a second job. Scrap that, the £44,700 is tax free so would equate to £65,000. Not a bad wage for up in Sheffield, still pretty crap for London. jb http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-lords-faqs/lords-statistics/ Edited October 3, 2014 by barleycorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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