Leeds: Do MPs deserve their pay rise?

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

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00:00I completely disagree with MPs getting pay rises. As far as I'm concerned, they don't

00:06do the job that they should be getting paid to do. There's a lot more jobs in the industry

00:10that deserve more money for pay rises, i.e. police, the army, fire brigade, the ambulance

00:18service, the NHS. I don't think MPs should be getting a pay rise at all.

00:22No, I don't think it's good value for money. I think they're overpaid as it is, and they

00:26claim all sorts of things on expenses. They can live in two houses and not pay a penny.

00:32I think it's too much of a drain on the tax base, and most of them, let's be honest, they're

00:38pretty much well off anyway.

00:41They are running our country, so if they are running it well, which they seem to be doing,

00:46things are a lot better with quite a lot of situations, then yeah, they do deserve it,

00:53but as far as the amount, I'm not quite sure, like I say on it, but yeah, if they're working

00:57hard and they're doing things right, then I think that's bang on.

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