Sixty-seven thousand pounds a year is a pretty good wage, don't you think? I could do a lot of damage with that…
Sir Malcolm Rifkin thinks it's not so great a wage though and feels compelled to top it up with a wee 'joab' on the side. He was being considered for an Advisors job at a staggering £5,000 a day pay packet. Imagine, five grand a DAY on top of his MP's wage.
Of course, they say that the cost of living in London is much higher than anywhere else in the country and that is why MPs have their 'interest only mortgages' paid for them by us.
When these worthy, worthwhile, hard-working MPs lose their seat at an election, retire or quit, they get to keep the flat or house...that we have paid for.
I'm always aghast at that one! However I am truly enraged by the grocery allowance of £160 that these 'hard-up public sector workers' are given to buy their weekly 'messages'.
Honestly, £160 per week, per MP, to buy in their meals to cook in their London pads, all paid for out the public purse...by YOU!
Sir Malcolm Rifkin used to be the Secretary of State for Scotland. I served him countless times on board the plane. He wasn't particularly chatty but last week he was fair gabbing away at his job interview which was secretly filmed. He was complaining that he didn't even consider the £67,000 income from Westminster was even a salary at all.
Sir Malcolm Rifkin is a public servant. Firefighters are public servants and have to ask permission to have a second job. A police officer is a public servant and also has to ask permission. MPs, of course, are a law unto themselves?
I'm sure nurses, care workers, transport workers in fact most real hard working tax payers would like to top up their wages but unfortunately there isn't enough hours in the day to fit in more work.
Yet again the out-of-touch brigade that inhabits Westminster have showed their understanding of real lives and everyday reality…none whatsoever!
Andy Murray, watch yerself in Miami
Andy Murray is getting married next month and somehow I can't really picture him wanting to have a raucous stag do.
In fact he's been quoted as saying that he doesn't really enjoy going out, that the music is too loud, you can't hear yourself speak and that you wake up with a sore throat.
However he might just be tempted, by tourism officials in Florida, who have invited him to hold his stag party in Miami, which is the third most popular destination for stag and hen parties in the USA, behind Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Fantastic eh? Whatever happened to a wee night in the house and then getting dragged round the streets with the pots and pans, having to kiss auld geezers for a couple of bob?
Well, in retrospect, I suppose dragging yourselves around the famous South Beach in Miami and hanging around the crazy Deco Drive with all the 'beautiful people', does seem more appealing!
I have an aunt who lives in Miami and have been lucky enough to visit the city loads of times since 1980.
I might not have had my hen night there but I bought my wedding dress there, on a street called Miracle Mile.
A friend of mine was a police officer in Miami. He used to drive me (in his 'cop car', I hasten to add) through the scary areas of the city and 'boy oh boy' were they scary. So Andy, watch yerself!
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