I’m currently listening to a debate on question time about public sector and MP / Prime Minister’s pay.

Apparently it has been revealed recently, that some public servants, civil servants, whatever, are paid more than the Prime Minister. This has caused outrage, but I think, for the wrong reasons.

Retard number one stands up and reasons that the prime minster has ultimate responsibility (which is actually true), but goes on to say, as no one else in the country has as much responsibility he should be be paid the most. No one should be eligible for more pay or is clearly more valuable.

Retard 2 reasons that the prime minster “does the most” in the country, and therefor everyone should be benchmarked against him because they “can’t possibly do as much”.

Ok sure.

Lets think about this for a second, the prime minister is a privileged bloke that ran a party with decent credentials behind him but was ultimately ELECTED IN. He has no previous experience of running an entire country and we’re going out on a limb putting confidence in someone to do a job who has no past experience of doing it.

Sure he’s a confident and experienced politician so that puts him in an ideal position, being leader of the opposition for a few years, but how valuable is he? Has he proved any valuable and decent credentials as a Prime Minster just yet?

Rhetoric.

So yes, ultimately the initial argument 1 of Ms retard was true, he DOES hold the most responsibility. However responsibility is not the ONLY factor that attributes to value.

Argument 2 was a nonsense, “does the most” means literally fuck all at the best of times. Does the most what, whores on a weekend? Hairbrushes up the ass passage the wrong way up, concurrently?

The thing that we need to keep in scope here is there are high skilled and experienced individuals doing jobs that no one else in the country, let alone the world are qualified to do, and have been doing them keeping us safe and running very important institutions and agencies, for fucking years.

That is the be all, and end all of the issue. The Prime Minister is the most media exposed, accountable and potentially “important” person in the country, but he is by no means the most useful, experienced or VALUABLE. There are a lot of highly skilled jobs within the public sector that some people, simply can not, or could not do. They might not be the Prime Minister, but they are ultimately more valuable.

One good point I heard put forward which won’t go down well, but to me makes perfect sense… The Prime Minister’s salary should be doubled. Let’s face it, is 140k a year (approx) actually a decent wage for someone running an entire country? Is it fuck.