Politician's Salaries

Politicians in the UK don't get paid much as a base salary but because they're able to claim expenses in just about every little thing and because they cosy up to business, they get everything free or on the taxpayers money.

I think politicians should be given a salary of the (average UK wage + £10,000) as a base salary. Then £10,000 p/a for expenses which need to be documented and put on public display.

If salaries are at the UK average wage rate, then the better they do for the people, the better they do for themselves. Of course, the issue here is that all they'll do is lie about what the average salary in the UK is seeing as they probably own all the statistics in that field.

So instead, an independent body should dictate what the average is. The body should not be known by any politician and any politican found communicating in any way, directly or indirectly with a member of that body will face an enquiry.