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Underpaid MPs, Libel online, motivated bikers and some aliens
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A few assists and pointers on writing about real people online and how to avoid being sued for libel. My legal consultant talls me it's fairly accurate...
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Not a bad little selection - reposted for those bikers not already reading Jennie (you should be, damnit)
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Duncan does his whole 'look, the most popular song won' analysis (again) with good reasoning (again). Pretty sure he's right as well, yes, there are blocks, but El Tel's predictions came next to bottom.
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Pay peanuts, get monkeys. That's why most British MPs are useless apparatchiks (well, that and the voting system). While they get way above median, they get way below what the most talented 0.001% of us should earn.
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Paleontologist SF geek isn't happy with CGI SF aliens - even Dr Who and Trek did weird better, let alone nature.
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Um, yeah. Having a copy of the contents of this can get you thrown into jail. Well, if you've got brown skin or you attend a mosque. But the US air force is free to host it on a public website, right? GAH!
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Originally, no, but the MPs I'm in contact with (admittedly a small subset) normally pull a 60 hour week when the house is in session and 30+ when it's not.
MPs were never meant to be the glorified social worker come local advocate that they've frequently become, but what was 100+ years ago and what is now in terms of job description doesn't compare.
Some do, nowhere near the majority, and most will only work very part time in their other work (directorships, occasional legal work, etc).
Ministers do get higher salaries, but even then they're underpaid compared to CEOs of even mid-ranked companies.
Agreed—STV weakens the party system, that's partially why I like it. It also rewards those who build up a local rep, and time and again a "straight talking" MP is shown to be popular within their constituency.