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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Meh, I dunno... The less you pay a politician, the more likely they are to be open to under-the-table deals, payoffs and bribes. And you're MORE likely to get independently wealthy people entering politics, who dont need the pay at all, but can use the position to stack the deck to further their "real" financial interests.
Mr Cameron and Mr Osbourne, for example, are both very rich men - and it's not from their government salary. Just sayin'.
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There are already lots of independently wealthy people there already, because power attracts money.
Any members of the Oxford Bullingdon club are already guaranteed to be millionaires before any career, so their wealth isn't anything to do with politics at all.
I think politicians should be paid the national average, and their pay rises/decreases should be linked to that statistic alone, and if the electorate continue to give power to people with interests that align with business and not people, then more fool them, but I think paying people twice the national average to encourage people to be less dirty is a pretty sad state of affairs.