A disgrace in my opinion

Thank you for all the replies.
My original post was about three groups of people who are involved in the fight against the Coronavirus,
Nurses, journalists and MPs and whether or not the British taxpayer gets value for money.
Nothing to do with footballists, SKY TV or Richard Branson.
(I only used LK only because she's always in the news, nothing to do with the BBC)


My opinion was (and still is) journalists spend all their time criticising and trying to make MPs look stupid and themselves look clever.

MPs spend their time manipulating figures and avoiding answering the questions they don't want to answer.

Nurses are on the front line facing the virus every day, facing death every day mostly without sufficient protection.
I can't imagine the levels of mental scarring nurses will face in the months and years to come.
And it's the nurses who get paid the insulting wages.

In my opinion, nurses are the only group that give more than value for money and given the choice of paying for one MP and one LK or 21 nurses
I'd choose 21 nurses every day of the week.

A few weeks ago an MP was asked if nurses will be getting a substantial pay rise, he replied ''now is not the time to discuss that''.
He conveniently forgot to mention his substantial payrise that he got from 1st April of 3.1%
Says it all
 
SocketRocket said:
According to the .GOV site Firefighters are paid average between £23.5k as a starter to £38.5k as an experienced Firefighter.
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/firefighter
You are suggesting a Firefighter starting 14 years ago earned £5,300 more than one starting today. Maybe you should recheck those numbers.
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You really should look a little more into a subject other than Google. 23k is for new recruits aka apprentices whilst training (they also get around £160 government top up per month too) . My training was 8 weeks. Also, today a firefighter is not a firefighter until he finishes he's apprenticeship.
The 38k is for London fire fighters only that ride as an officer in charge on specialist vehicles. Even then their wage slip will show 30k per year. The line underneath reads " weighting payment= x amount" So, I can promise you that no firefighter outside of London is on 38k. Not even close. My watch manager that is two promotions up from firefighter is on 35k.

Edit: Just looked at my payslip. From April 1st I got a 1% pay rise!!!!!!! PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!
 
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hovis said:
You really should look a little more into a subject other than Google. 23k is for new recruits whilst training. My training was 8 weeks.
The 38k is for London fire fighters only that ride as an officer in charge on specialist vehicles. So, I can promise you that no firefighter outside of London is on 38k. Not even close. My watch manager that is two promotions up from firefighter is on 35k.

Considering its my living I am well aware of "the numbers".
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Sounds like evening standard reporting of numbers where they take the extremes that one person might be on who is like a specialist and everyone gets that

That's the headline
 
JamesR said:
Personally I’d rather see MPs given larger salaries. They have a lot of responsibilities and would probably earn very well as solicitors, doctors etc which they had as previous jobs.
I would however prefer that they couldn’t earn from other sources (Davis getting paid by JCB etc). Also I wouldn’t allow expenses.
Just a large salary which covers all costs and should therefore keep them out of the pocket of businessmen and lobbyists.

Journalists such as LK are massively overpaid imho.

Nurses massively underpaid.
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That's not very fair though. The MP for the Cities of London & Westminster constituency should be spending significantly less on travel and a second residence for parliamentary duty than the MP for Orkney & Shetland, are we saying he should get to take home more just by virtue of representing a seat in a convenient location?
 
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