AFPRB Petition
As sqn ldr aircrew (PAS) I can confirm that I get nothing like the remuneration package of an MP.
Even ignoring contentious issues like allowances, expenses and pension accrual rates, or the fact that around 120 Conservative MPs also receive a ministerial salary, I just don't get the option to bung my wife £40K a year so she can pretend to be my aid.
Even ignoring contentious issues like allowances, expenses and pension accrual rates, or the fact that around 120 Conservative MPs also receive a ministerial salary, I just don't get the option to bung my wife £40K a year so she can pretend to be my aid.
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Petition Closed
~18000 signatures and a pathetic, predictable response.
Maybe the petition should have been "Abolish the hypocritical IPSA" and aimed at the whole UK general public, rather than the reduced audience of the UK military (quoting other so-called "independent" bodies).
It would have required an almost 100% response from the whole UK mil personnel to get a debate.
After Beaker's (Danny Alexander) letter to the AFPRB (which they had the audacity to publish at the end of last years report), I was so glad to see him get sacked by his constituents.
Maybe the petition should have been "Abolish the hypocritical IPSA" and aimed at the whole UK general public, rather than the reduced audience of the UK military (quoting other so-called "independent" bodies).
It would have required an almost 100% response from the whole UK mil personnel to get a debate.
After Beaker's (Danny Alexander) letter to the AFPRB (which they had the audacity to publish at the end of last years report), I was so glad to see him get sacked by his constituents.
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I am not terribly disappointed with the number of signatories. There are a large number of us serving that are a little more cautious about this - people that would obviously have voted for this had we felt the desire. Whilst the support of you retired guys and spotters is greatly appreciated, it is not you that would have to live with whatever may replace the AFPRB. The feeling here seems to be that anything that replaced it would never be anything significantly different and that no sane government would install anything likely to cost the Treasury more than we already do. Probably the opposite.
Yes, I said "sane government." Go ahead, if you want!
Yes, I said "sane government." Go ahead, if you want!
