Face it guys, whether you are Fish head, Pongo or Crab, we have to accept that the tax payer will only fund us for the cheapest airship that keeps UKPLC afloat.
Once you have accepted that, then the job is actually quite a breeze. You get to do an interesting and challenging job for the Queen's shilling; ocassionally risking life and limb to protect the Prime Minister's Ar**.
No different to civvy street, except that you get a decent pension at the end of it?