If you want an out-of-touch elite, here they are.
Tory MP David Davis will earn £60,000 for 20 hours of work as an adviser to manufacturing company JCB. Mr Davis has also been made a board member of German manufacturing company Mansfelder Kupfer Und Messing for six months - from which he earned £36,085. The two wages are in addition to the £77,379 that Mr Davis earns as a basic salary for an MP.
MPs are not allowed to act as a "paid advocate", and have to declare their financial interests, including paid employment outside Parliament, in the Register of Members' Financial Interests - which Mr Davis has done. Cabinet members are not allowed other jobs and there are restrictions on the roles they can take up immediately after leaving office.
Since quitting his job as foreign secretary shortly after Mr Davis, Boris Johnson has received a number of large sums for jobs outside Parliament, including £94,507.85 from GoldenTree Asset Management for a two-hour speaking engagement.
I propose the current system be maintained, but any MP taking a job (or set of jobs) which earns them more than 10% of their salary in a year be immediately sentenced to community service. The number of hours to be based on how long it would take to earn their bonus at the current pay rate for that task.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46981440
Unless they’ve asked David Davies to speak for sheer comedy value (in which case he’s certainly worth £45000/hour), there is no other explanation than that he’s being paid for his role in Brexit.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your community service proposal. 😁
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