People on the street: MP’s wages

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We went out onto the streets of Manchester to talk to people on the street about the impending increase to MP’s wages and whether they were in favour of it or not.

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00:00I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people

00:03about Members of Parliament and their salaries. The reason for that is here in

00:07England MPs are about to earn a pay rise of around two and a half thousand pounds a

00:11year taking up to around £95,000 over the course of 12 months. We want to know if

00:16people think that this is too much or whether to tempt the brightest and best into

00:20representing people in Parliament you need to pay them for the rights the best deserve.

00:24I think they're supposed to just be doing their job but it's that they need to be paid a huge amount.

00:29It's difficult because it's a difficult job first of all, there's a lot of

00:32responsibilities, a lot of things to manage and a lot of ability I think

00:36you've needed to deal with the actual issues so I think it does need to be an

00:40attractive salary or job for people to actually want to go and do it right.

00:44For me I don't have a problem with them getting an increase in wage because there's a

00:47small number of them it's not a real figure it's like saying oh a footballer

00:52shouldn't be paid £100,000 a week. I think towards you know six

00:56figures is maybe a bit much considering where the national average is.

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