Rejected petition Reduce MPs' pay to the minimum wage

MPs do a job that requires no formal qualifications, has no set hours, and they don’t even need to live in their constituencies.

Starting on £65,738, they have access to expenses; and offices and staff whose cost is picked up by the tax payer.

Despite this generous package, over the last few years MPs appear to have got increasingly out of touch with the problems of ordinary working people, young families, and people on benefits. They have fiddled their expenses, and disappeared into the jungle, instead of holding the government to account.

Now they seem to think they deserve a 32% pay-rise (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20978487)

To help give them a better idea of what real life is like, they should be paid the national minimum wage (£15,420 for a 48 hour working week).

I’m not proposing they give up their allowances, pension, second jobs or any other source of income so they’ll get by... But at least we’d be getting better value for money