High pay

[tutor4u]

The Prime Minister's total salary is £149,440 (source-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_ ... Parliament)

BUT

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Council President Donald Tusk now earn around €32,200-a-month, OR The total annual compensation is € 369.670,04. (Source -https://paycheck.in/salary/salarychecke ... ude-juncke)

Question does more pay bring more skills to the post? Comments please.

[Geoff1131]

Juncker had the option of being paid what he was worth when he first took the job. But he refused it. He said any fool can work for nothing......

[tutor4u]

Juncker had the option of being paid what he was worth when he first took the job. But he refused it. He said any fool can work for nothing......

Ah that explains Bojo then

[Maisiemoo]

Don't forget all the expenses Juncker can claim on top of his salary, the man's raking it in!

[Cally]

Apart from all the reasons to leave, this must be up there...….

[Geoff1131]

Juncker had the option of being paid what he was worth when he first took the job. But he refused it. He said any fool can work for nothing......

Ah that explains Bojo then

tutor4u, so using your example. Junker gets more than twice as much as Boris. Therefore Junker is more than twice the idiot?

[tomsteel]

Juncker had the option of being paid what he was worth when he first took the job. But he refused it. He said any fool can work for nothing......

Ah that explains Bojo then

I guess you have the support, academic intellect, passion for politics, time, inclination and guts to take on the role of the UK PM then?

[laptatony]

Don't forget the outrageous pension scheme as well......

[waddo]

Be fair! Junker is the President of the EU Commision - currently 28 country’s - what is Boris president of by comparison? Any fool can travel the UK making promises and I suppose we should think ourselves lucky that we get exactly that so cheaply - lol!

[Mowgli597]

The Prime Minister's total salary is £149,440 (source-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_ ... Parliament)

BUT

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Council President Donald Tusk now earn around €32,200-a-month, OR The total annual compensation is € 369.670,04. (Source -https://paycheck.in/salary/salarychecke ... ude-juncke)

Question does more pay bring more skills to the post? Comments please.

My understanding is that you get paid more if you have more skills, can do the job better, or have more responsibility (as Waddo says), not the other way round.

[jofra]

My understanding is that you get paid more if you have more skills, can do the job better, or have more responsibility (as Waddo says), not the other way round.

No, that's just the way it should be.... but in the real world, in all walks of life, far from it....

[kerry 6138]

Nice to know if National politics dont work out theres always another train heading towards the gravy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

The inquiry heard from witnesses who claimed that SREL had conducted six or seven illegal wiretapping operations between 2007 and 2009, as well as covert operations in Iraq, Cuba and Libya.The report concluded that Juncker had to bear political responsibility for SREL's activities, that he had been deficient in his control over the service and that he had failed to report all of the service's irregularities to the enquiry commission.[25][28] Juncker himself denied wrongdoing.
After a seven-hour debate in the Chamber of Deputies on 10 July, the withdrawal of support from the Christian Social People's Party's coalition partner, the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), forced Juncker to agree to new elections. Alex Bodry, President of LSAP and Chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry into SREL, declared his lack of confidence in Juncker, saying: "We invite the prime minister to take full political responsibility in this context and ask the government to intervene with the head of state to clear the path for new elections. Juncker tendered his resignation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen

In 2015, researchers collaborating at the VroniPlag Wiki reviewed von der Leyen's 1991 doctoral thesis and alleged that 43.5% of the thesis pages contained plagiarism, and in 23 cases citations were used that did not verify claims for which they were given.Multiple notable German academics such as Gerhard Dannemann [de] and Volker Rieble [de] publicly accused von der Leyen of intended plagiarism.

After the Federal Court of Auditors complained that rules of government procurement had been ignored when giving external consultancies in the ministry from 2015 to 2016 and it turned out documents were destroyed to cover this up, a parliamentary investigative commission was installed in 2019.

As a cabinet member, von der Leyen was, for several years, regarded as one of the leading contenders to succeed Angela Merkel as Chancellor.In 2010 she was Merkel's preferred candidate for President of Germany, but her nomination was blocked by the conservative wing of the CDU/CSU.

[tutor4u]

So it's not about ability then, maybe this explains it then... https://www.itv.com/news/2019-07-23/bor ... -they-now/

[kibsolar1999]

lionel messi, 113 million euro year (= 430 k euro /day)
Lady gaga, 40 million Euro a year
PM singapore, 1,4 million euro /year
president france, 180 k euro /year
president south africa, 226 k euro/ year
president china , 18 k euro /year
PM bangladesh , 1200 euro /year (= 5 GBP = 33 lira a day)
pope franziskus, 0 euro /year