SOLIDARITY!
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1. Our economy, financial system and currency are in a parlous state and Britain is drowning in an ocean of government, corporate and household debt.
British economic, fiscal & currency collapse: let's protect each other:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57886488661
2. Currently our MPs earn approximately three times the average national salary as their basic salary.
The current basic salary an MP earns is £63,291 a year.
http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/members/pay_mps.cfm
In 2006 some of them even wanted a 66% pay rise to over £100,000 a year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6205852.stm
They also claim significant expenses:
http://www.parliament.uk/about_commons/hocallowances/hocallowances06.cfm
Some MPs earn vast extras outside their Parliamentary salary. As an example, William Hague registered earnings of up to £800,000 in 2007, David Blunkett over £500,000, Boris Johnson up to £535,000 before becoming London Mayor and Ann Widdecombe approximately £300,000.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blunkett-joins-the-commons-rich-list-thanks-to-memoirs-445046.html
http://www.epolitix.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/hague-topsnbspmps-earnings-list/
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/070326/070326.pdf
3. Why should they earn so much?
At the General Election, let's support candidates in constituencies up and down the country who are willing to work for the average national salary as their basic Parliamentary salary.
Pay cuts should start with MPs, not the electorate.
4. If you want to challenge your local MP in the General Election on the basis that you would only work for the average national salary as your basic salary, the following links may be of help.
How to stand as a Parliamentary candidate:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/candidates/how-do-i-find-out-about-standing-as-a-candidate
They Work For You (But Not Necessarily Any Longer):
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Politically Independent Candidate (for local elections):
http://www.picx.co.uk/frame.html
Election Maps (free maps of constituencies online):
http://www.election-maps.co.uk/
Pledgebank:
http://www.pledgebank.com/
UK Polling Report:
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/
About My Vote:
http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/
Electoral Calculus:
http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/
Electoral Commission:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/
Write To Them (free online):
http://www.writetothem.com/
Write to the Lords:
http://www.writetothem.com/lords
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http://mdedwards.typepad.com
tetsudoh@gmail.com
1. Our economy, financial system and currency are in a parlous state and Britain is drowning in an ocean of government, corporate and household debt.
British economic, fiscal & currency collapse: let's protect each other:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57886488661
2. Currently our MPs earn approximately three times the average national salary as their basic salary.
The current basic salary an MP earns is £63,291 a...
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