Submitted on Thursday 13th August 2015
Rejected on Friday 14th August 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make every politicians wage equal to the national average income.
The average Brit earns £26,000 per year. An MP earns £74,000.
Politicians are elected representatives for their constituents. How can they represent us when theres a £48,000 pay gap separating us?
Only when they live on our wages will they try to increase them.
We'll save £31,200,000 when we stop overpaying MPs.
It will also end the absurdity that MPs choose their own wages. They've chosen £74,000 for themselves, and as little as£12,000 for us.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government and Parliament don’t have the power to set MPs’ pay. That power was given by Parliament to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) in 2010, so that after 2012 MPs no longer had control over their own pay. IPSA conducted a public consultation after 2012 and decided what the salaries of MPs should be after the election.
If you would like to contact IPSA about its decision, here’s how to contact them:
http://parliamentarystandards.org.uk/About%20Us/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx
The only way that the decision of IPSA could be challenged would be if the law was changed to return the power to set MPs’ pay to the MPs themselves, or to give the power to some other body. The law could only be changed by Parliament.
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