Are taxpayers getting good value for money from 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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00:00I don't think that Parliament or government are delivering on the promises they set out for, especially the government.

00:06MPs get paid a lot for a good, not a good cut, but it's a bigger responsibility for that person, so it kind of goes each way.

00:16Plus, how many MPs are there?

00:18There's something like a hundred or something.

00:20Or like 60 million or whatever.

00:22No.

00:24Oh yeah, no, 60 million population.

00:26Yeah, it's kind of like, yeah.

00:29When you put it that way, yeah.

00:31Yeah, yeah.

00:33I don't feel that MPs are necessarily represented in the local area at all.

00:37I think there's a lot of secondary interest.

00:41So I know Nigel Fry, for example, he's the highest earner from his own private businesses.

00:47I think as an MP, your priority should be your local constituents and your constituencies, not your secondary businesses.

00:53At the end of the day, do you really need a pay rise?

00:56Those are the things they're on about.

00:58Nothing gets done.

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