Service - what's that?

Our parliamentary representatives are in the news again due to their demands for money rather than for the service they are doing for us the subjects of this kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Our Members of Parliament (MPs) as well as our MEPs, MSPs and various other so called leaders of our society actually get paid a great deal of money. Certainly a great deal more than they themselves have designated that we the common people need to live on. The minimum wage for someone in their mid 20s is £5-80 an hour, that is £208-80 on a 26 hour week or £10,857-60 in a 52 week year (and that is before tax). Remember, this is the amount of money per anum that the MPs at Westminster have decreed is what a normal person requires to live on in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the twenty first century. And yet these self same MPs are complaining that they cannot live on a salary that is at least eight times more than this plus all the allowances and perks that they get. They are telling us that if they got more pay they wouldn't have to indulge in corrupt practices which a lot, but not all, have been doing.
We are told (usually by MPs) that MPs should be paid a high wage in order to attract good people into the role of MPs and that many of them are taking a cut in wages when they enter parliament. This argument makes me spit blood. I was always taught that the primary function of MPs is to serve the needs of the people they represent, not to make money on the back of it. But this concept of service seems to have been forgotten in relation to the governance of our country. When the Queen elects our next Prim Minister (and remember please that she is the only person who can elect HER Prim Minister) she will not take the amount of cash involved into consideration (I hope). That doesn't mean he won't be paid a very large wedge of money for the privilege of serving the Crown in this manor.
What I believe is that all elected public servants should be paid minimum wage based on a 40 hour week (they can work longer if necessary). They would need to be allowances for secretaries, researchers and the like but these should be set scales administered by a personnel department at Westminster. I am sure that it is not beyond the wit of man to sort out a system that allows people that have a true calling to serve the subjects of the United Kingdom as their MPs to do so efficiently and honestly. We should aim to get those people who are in parliament for the money out as soon as possible replacing them with those who wish to serve. I also think it could be good to have a limit to the number of parliaments any individual can serve in but this will need a bit more consideration.