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Why would a good lawyer go into politics when they can make 250000 ayear in the city and many make a million plus. We therefore get politicians who don't aspire to this because they aren't good enough. Pay them more and we might attract the better lawyers instead.
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This is one of the funniest things i have read on this board in ages.
Ask yourself this why would a good teacher or a proffesor who could probably do a Lawyers Job In there sleep work for £40K a year if they could earn as you say £200,000+.
Some MP's may well be failed Lawyers but I bet a few left for Job satisfaction rather than Just a huge salary.
No one could ever persuade me that proffesional people like Accountants, Solicitors, Lawyers & Barristers are worth what they get paid in relative terms to other proffesions salaries It is one of the scandals of the modern age and If these type of salaries were what they actually should be then MP's salaries would not look so bad.
exactly,if the m.ps were paid more the lawyers & barristers would want more,and get it as there seems to be no end to what they get paid,a lot of the time for doing next to nothing
labour didn't get the kicking you might expect in Glasgow last night. whilst i expected a labour win you would have thought a smaller majority as is often the case with by elections.
The seat borderd a seat which the SNP took in a by-election last year.
It gives some hope to my hung parliament bet. _________________ There are two certainties in life Death and Taxes they no longer tax betting so there may be a god
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Why would a good lawyer go into politics when they can make 250000 ayear in the city and many make a million plus. We therefore get politicians who don't aspire to this because they aren't good enough. Pay them more and we might attract the better lawyers instead.
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This is one of the funniest things i have read on this board in ages.
Ask yourself this why would a good teacher or a proffesor who could probably do a Lawyers Job In there sleep work for £40K a year if they could earn as you say £200,000+.
Some MP's may well be failed Lawyers but I bet a few left for Job satisfaction rather than Just a huge salary.
No one could ever persuade me that proffesional people like Accountants, Solicitors, Lawyers & Barristers are worth what they get paid in relative terms to other proffesions salaries It is one of the scandals of the modern age and If these type of salaries were what they actually should be then MP's salaries would not look so bad.
exactly,if the m.ps were paid more the lawyers & barristers would want more,and get it as there seems to be no end to what they get paid,a lot of the time for doing next to nothing
interstingly one of my teachers at school went on to become my local MP. He was a great teacher and a great MP. If an MP had been made half of what a teacher was paid would he still have made the switch? I don't know but would suggest it would be less likely.
I accept that some MP's see polotics as a calling.but others see it as a potential gravy train.
I was with a client yesterday who was a liverpool docker and won the pools many years ago. He is a tradional labour supporter and big tradeunionist and we were discussing politics. He made the point that the leaders of the big unions were paid more than MPs. He made a similiar point to mine in that why would leading figures in the unions stand for parliament when they make so much in their present positions. He felt that labour was moving towards the centre because of the lack of trade union reps wanting to get involved to fight their corner from within parliament.
_________________ There are two certainties in life Death and Taxes they no longer tax betting so there may be a god
Grand National 2009 Comp Winner
September October 2009 NAP Comp Winner
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