Bristolians Discuss: Does the tax payer get a good value for money with their MPs?

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MPs are set to get a £2,500 pay rise, bringing their salary to £94,000 a year—almost three times the UK average. Do you think taxpayers are getting good value for money from their MPs?

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00:00Do you think taxpayers are getting good value for money in their MPs?

00:05No, I don't. I don't think I'd be able to repeat what I actually believe about MP salaries,

00:12but £94,000 for what we get as taxpayers, like it's way too much.

00:18Good value for money, I don't know. I mean, I imagine being an MP is a really stressful

00:23job. I imagine they do an awful lot. So, are they getting good value for money? I don't

00:29know, really.

00:30I've never spoken to my MP, so I wouldn't really know. It seems like a lot of money.

00:36More than I ever got.

00:38Sure, they do a lot of hard work, but it's often hard to see the work they do. So, it's

00:42hard to kind of think, is this good value for money or not? I mean, is it a fair salary?

00:49I don't know. I'm sorry. I just don't know. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But then again,

00:53maybe that shows you something. Maybe it'd be nice to have more visibility on what do

00:56they do day-to-day. But yeah.

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