if he genuinely thinks MP's get crap money.
Yes I do genuinely think MPs get crap money - what's being under a bridge got to do with it ?
And what's you being working-class got to do with it too ? Are you saying that all working-class people should be opposed to MPs having a wage increase, but all middle-class people should support a wage increase for MPs. Sounds like you might be living under a bridge mate.
An MP's job cannot be described as 'working-class' because it isn't. It's not manual work, it's intellectual work in the same respect as a professional job is.
If you took all the professional qualifications of all MPs and averaged it out, and then compared it with the average wage for that level of qualification, I think that you will find that the averge wage for that level of qualification, is considerably more that £64k. In fact, quite a few of your 'working-class' plumbers probably earn more than that.
But hey, perhaps you don't think that highly qualified people such as barristers or in the case of Vince cable, chief economic advisers to Shell, shouldn't be encouraged to become MPs ?
After all, of what possible benefit to the country's legislature could these highly qualified people be ?
A top civil servant (and no, they're not working-class) can 3 times more than an MP. I'm not convinced that there isn't an anomaly there.
As I've said before, my problem with MPs is that they've screwed the country up. But apparently everybody else isn't bothered about that, they are far more concerned about whether some upper-class Tory grandee took the p1ss and claimed to have his moat cleaned, or a Labour MP handed in his receipt for his Waitrose shopping.
I would rather that they didn't take the piss, got a proper wage, but more important of all, didn't screw the **** country up.
For your information, I haven't had a wage rise since EU enlargement in 2004 when the New Labour fukwits flooded the construction industry with cheap East European labour. In fact, my wages have gone down in the last year. AND, I haven't worked since last friday because the construction industry is truly screwed.
That is what concerns me. Not the media whipped up hysterical bollox about someone 'flipping' their house.
Want to know why British politics is in such a dire state today ? Well just look at people's priority about what is 'important'. That should answer the question for you.