tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post3844212931411541336..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: “I’ve done nothing wrong”John Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-74669203915438314912013-06-05T10:24:31.160+01:002013-06-05T10:24:31.160+01:00“Time, perhaps, to get back to the original thinki...“Time, perhaps, to get back to the original thinking behind paying a salary at all.” I think your words capture what has to happen, but not from banning all kinds of things.<br />The people who hire (select) MP`s should hold the contract of employment and set the wage level based on their annual performance. This is the constituencies who would get funded from the centre but would reduce the level of pay if performance was not to standard and /or they had other sources of income. Any surplus from the funds given by the centre would be allocated to constituency work.<br />Being a backbench MP is not a full time job – Wee Gordon Brown is proving that point most months and I would not wish to stop them partaking in the real world rather than being locked up in Westminster.<br />As for the Lords – much loved by the Anglo- Welsh in Blaid, who voted to be part of this useless Club – what can I say, but that as with the office of Head of State they are designed to be unaccountable and reluctance to reform the Lords is in part to protect the Head of State which would be next in line? <br />Spirit of BMEnoreply@blogger.com