Give the NHS Staff the Same Payrise as the MP'S.
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Seeing the MPS are receiving a 5.5% payrise in April and it made me think would the NHS strikes be over if the staff were offered the same payrise or would it be wiser to take it up to £100000 for the MPS but they completely lose all there expenses .
Most definitely. It's hard work working for the NHS. Management that are just desk monkeys not so much but those on the ground doing the real jobs need a real payrise.
The NHS is a fantastic service but hugely wasteful. We pay £200 billion a year for it which is huge money and there is huge waste and management problems in the service. They don't operate in the interests of the UK economy and a huge chunk of our trade deficit that leads to so much debt and our drop in services like the NHS and Police. One third of doctors in the NHS were born abroad and a sizeable chunk of those have financial interests elsewhere so leads to a huge transfer of money outside the UK which we have to pay for as the government keeps borrowing to add that money back into the economy and we all have to pay the interest payments on those debts.
As it stands the NHS will continue to have reduced resources as the UK economy has a greater burden of debt.
We all love the NHS but we have to understand it can only be afforded if the economy is running well which it currently isn't.
It’s always been the way hasn’t it, MPs are quick to say others don’t deserve stuff but think they do even when the country is going down the pan due to their decisions.
jms19 The trouble is there is a lot more NHS staff than politicians. Paying NHS staff more is a huge burden on the economy and will lead to even more debt. It's one of the biggest employers in the world.
BonzoBanana yeah ofc realistically the money spent on MP’s wages is a drop in the ocean compared to all the NHS staff. But it’s not a great look for the MP’s when so many people are striking over wages cause they haven’t had a fair pay rise and then the MP’s themselves receive a payrise every time they can.
jms19 Yeah pretty much all MPs will vote for a payrise or improvement in their conditions. Expenses are often ridiculously high too which I find really annoying;
www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-business-costs/your-mp#mp-m
I know nowadays MP's wages are independently set but that so called independent body was set up by MPs and seems to recommend high wages for MPs. Perhaps the NHS could set up an independent body to assess their wages and conditions and make it a an independent body that recommends high wages and pensions too? Perhaps I could set up a independent body that recommends I get £200k a year and also a £200k pension per year at retirement age at tax payers expense.
I wouldn't mind so much if MPs were skilled people who know what they are doing but they are a bunch of useless clowns that just seem to make one terrible decision after another and never seem to focus on the big issues which is our level of debt and our trading deficit. I almost feel embarrassed for them as they are so utterly useless and then I remember how much they are being paid.
BonzoBanana your last paragraph sums it up for me. If things we’re going well it would be a lot easier to understand, but how they can justify a pay rise year on year when they’re royally ******** everything up shows the kind of people they are.
The Nurses deserve the payrise, they do a lot more of the work than a lot if the dr's do!
Lots of worker’s deserve it but if public sector staff all get rises, taxes will have to go up to pay for it, private sector wages will need to go up to be in the same take home position and then prices will go up to fund these rises so on a take home basis nothing will change. NHS is wasteful like someone has already said, it’s mismanaged the money is already there.
They could have pay rises now, if they reduced the level of pension contributions the government paid for them, from 1 April 2024 the employer contribution (what the tax payer pays) goes up from 20.6% to 23.7%. This is a very generous contribution than those in the majority of the private sector can only dream of, the average will be 3%/4% from their employers. With their level of pension contributions this will mean they will be able to retire before the private sector.
Their whole package needs to looked at before people shout they’re not getting enough. On a £35K annual salary they are also getting £8,295 pension contribution - not to be sniffed at or dismissed!!
Without a doubt. The NHS were the ones throughout covid the people relied on. Putting their own lives/ that of their families too, on hold and at risk. Look how many mps, who made the covid rules, broke them during lockdown.
Pay everyon ein your gang the same amountout of your revenue; or pay the toughest few and tell them they are special ones but they must keep the rest in line on the lower wage? Its a no brainer. Life is not fair.
What about US Support Workers,my partner & I worked ALL the way through the pandemic as did the Care Workers..
We do some of the jobs of the NHS staff,DON'T get the recognition or the wage NHS Staff get!!
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