Hey, Mr Lee - you know how we paid £500,000 for you to be a GP?* We kind of WANT you to keep GP'ing and not going into "Public Service" and then whinging how it doesn't pay enough.ohsocynical wrote:You might like to read this:ohsocynical wrote:I'm pretty sure he only does one day a week, but it's not for the NHS. It's a private practice.citizenJA wrote:An MP AND a GP? No. We need rules against that kind of thing. Neither job is getting the attention it deserves. I don't actually know that for a fact - I don't know this person. However, I've seen the job description for GPs & MPs. I would have thought it impossible for someone in either profession able to fit them both into a functional routine.
Probably keeping his hand in, because although he has a large majority due to boundary changes, he's not popular. Claims for a second home although we're not far from London and he actually lives just over the border in Bucks. Holds his' surgeries' occasionally in a pub but has been known to lecture his constituents on the dangers of drinking.
Tory MP complains about having to take £50,000 pay cut to enter parliament
A Conservative MP has complained about having to take a £50,000 cut in his pay to enter parliament after giving up his job as a family doctor.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... ament.html
Honest Guv. We didn't twist his arm.
Edited to add this:
Daily Mirror
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Dr Phillip Lee 'Eat doughnuts for breakfast? Pay for your own health...
By Daily Mirror @DailyMirror
He said sufferers of type 2 diabetes and similar illnesses should lose their right to free prescriptions to save the NHS from collapse
Nice heh?
*https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/i ... 519AACnc0W