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Originally Posted by Livia

So you want them to have ideals and ideas but to accept a reasonably low salary for the responsibility they take. Not sure I agree. No way would I have considered it as a career option, not just because of the salary but because of the disrespect they generally get and the fact that they can be out of their ear every four or five years.

Something else on which we will have to agree to disagree.

The fact that you think it's a "reasonably low" salary says it all Livia; you have a city-centric viewpoint that is completely alien to the vast majority of working people in the UK.

I don't want them taking pay hikes massively above the rate of inflation, whilst also claiming expenses, when so many working people in the country are also disrespected, are also in insecure employment, get paid half of that salary or less, and aren't getting any pay rise at all in real terms. Funnily enough.