Labour for the working class, don't make me laugh!
Lord Kinnock and his wife, Glenys, have amassed six public sector pensions worth a total of £185,000 per year, according to a new analysis by a think tank.
Open Europe claimed they have so far received up to £8million in pay and allowances - he as a European commissioner and she as a member of the European parliament.
Mrs Kinnock, 64, the new Europe minister, collects a teacher's pension, worth £2,568.46 in the 2008-09 financial year.
From next month, when she turns 65, the analysis states she is entitled to another from Brussels with an estimated annual value of £48,000. This is understood to be from the European Parliament's additional voluntary pension scheme, to which she contributed for 15 years.
She is simultaneously drawing a ministerial salary of £83,275 and she is entitled to a further ministerial
pension.
Her basic pension from her time as an MEP is said to be worth £19,730 a year, but, as a minister of state, she will not draw this money.
The think tank has calculated that Lord Kinnock receives a pension of £83,089 for his service as European transport commissioner between 1995 and 1999 and vice-president of the commission from 1999 to 2004. In the 2008-09 financial year, he received a further £28,936.43 a year for his 25 years' service as an MP, including time as leader of the opposition. He also claimed £13,700 of allowances while a member of the House of Lords during 2007-8.
Open Europe said the couple claimed a total of £6million in staff and salary allowances during their time in Brussels, £1.7million less than the maximum to which they were entitled. Lord Kinnock resigned last week as unpaid chairman of the British Council to avoid "perceived conflict of interest" with his wife's ministerial role. She will soon be elevated to the House of Lords, alongside her husband. A spokesman for the Kinnocks said: "All payments to Glenys Kinnock, including the salary to which she was entitled as an MEP, staffing allowances and office expenses, were received exactly the same as all UK MEPs.
"The Open Europe figures appear to be inflated estimates, they should not be presented as those of Glenys Kinnock during her 15 years as an MEP."
No wonder our politicians don't want to leave the European Gravy Train.
If you've got a plundered private pension, fuck you, they're OK!
2 comments:
Mate WTF?
D'ya know what? The whole lot of them are so fucking ROTTEN to the core! How DARE they purport to champion the working classes when they're riding the gravy train 1st class.
BOTH their kids have been given the silver spoon treatment - the girls working for Gorgon in No. 10 and the boy's doing some fuckwit, big-nob job in the EU! Hhmmmm . . .no nepatism there then!
That´s the worst part, is they pretend to be the workers party.
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