(copyleft Dylan Jeavons)

"He's been offered more money, hasn't he?" said David Oley, selling copies of the Shields Gazette on Ocean Road in the town centre. "You don't leave a good job for another unless you're getting paid more, do you?" Quite right, said a customer, Gordon Haslop. "It's obvious he is going to be handsomely paid in New York – and you already get a lot as an MP."
The South Shields Gazette splashed on the departure of its local MP to head International Rescue in the US, revealing that the constituency Labour party would prefer him to be replaced by "a local candidate, rather than a prospective MP 'parachuted' in by head office."

Yep! The charity racket's the one to be in. I haven't seen any reference to his salary, not to mention the expense account.
This caring individual is the man who was Foreign Secretary when British citizens, including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire, were kidnapped on the high seas by a foreign power, and there wasn't a peep out of him.
The chances of any safe labour seat getting a representative of local origin are slim to nil. Such seats are reserved for the nomenklatura, or the public school educated and well connected metropolitan. Stand by for another Tony or Mandy or Milly.

Addendum, 28th March
"The new chief executive of one of the world's leading disaster relief charities will have on tap the former UN general secretary Kofi Annan and a trio of US secretaries of state, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, who sit on the charity's overseeing committee. The board of directors includes executives from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JP Morgan while Pepsi and Pfizer are backers."
Robert Booth, The Guardian
Disaster Capitalism? Or US imperialism in moth-eaten sheep's clothing?