Re: MPs on a jury duty style system
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the suggestion that improving the remuneration of MPs would lead to better quality candidates. The thing is, the proposition is always that I pay more for improvements to a service I’m not happy with without offering any concrete evidence of what improvement (if any) I’ll see.
My counter to that is that maybe we should have a system of performance based pay for MPs, Ministers, Parliamentary Committee chairs, etc, etc, etc. Let them show me the improved results first, and then I’ll part with the money. Of course this does open up all sorts of questions about what the performance targets should be, who gets to set them, and who gets to evaluate performance against them…