MPs' pay rise plan a farce.WELL, well, now that MPs are losing their expenses gravy train gravy train n. Slang An occupation or other source of income that requires little effort while yielding considerable profit. gravy train Noun Slang they have the gall to ask for a pounds 40,000 a year rise. Very nice work if you can get it considering we have 2.5 million unemployed and other workers either on a wage freeze Noun 1. wage freeze - a freeze of wages at a given level freeze - fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring" wage freeze n → congelación f de salarios or wage reduction. MPs should be quiet and keep their heads low in case people start looking into what they actually do for their money and why we need so many. Parliament sits for four days with a Friday off which effectively means a three-and-a-half-day week for most MPs - some of whom travel on a Monday morning and travel back home on a Thursday afternoon. No wonder a lot of them can have a second job in private industry or commerce. Anyone following the debates in parliament will see that the house is full for an hour on Wednesdays for Prime Minster's Questions, but for most of the rest of the week there is a very sparse sparse - A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory. attendance indeed. No wonder the subsidised Adj. 1. subsidised - having partial financial support from public funds; "lived in subsidized public housing" subsidized supported - sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support); "a club entirely supported by membership dues"; bars and restaurants are doing a roaring trade. As for constituency work, apart from the monthly surgeries which last for about two hours, there doesn't seem to be much activity from rank-and-file MPs and isn't the day to day running of our communities handled by our local councils? If our local MPs had any clout at all the A1 North would have been made into a dual carriageway dual carriageway Noun Brit, Austral & NZ a road with a central strip of grass or concrete to separate traffic travelling in opposite directions Noun 1. years ago. JIMMY WARDLE, Newcastle. |
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