With MPs set to receive a £2,500 pay rise, bringing their salary to £94,000 a year—almost three times the UK average—we ask locals if taxpayers are getting good value for money from their MPs.
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00:00No, not really. I think their pay should be similar to everyone else's.
00:10I think that's quite a loaded question. I think it's more a matter of who is getting
00:16a pay rise in these times and who is getting a pay rise that's in line with inflation.
00:20Because I feel like, of all people, MPs are already quite well paid and the job that they're
00:27doing is not changing. And they're not the people who are having to really live with
00:32the financial crisis that we're living through right now.
00:35Rather than a pay rise, they should have pay cuts. Make this as an example, since you can
00:43see what's happening with the economy and everywhere you have massive redundancies.
00:48I've been a victim of redundancies in the past, so I don't think that's a fair move
00:53by the MPs. Rather than setting an example, they are getting pay rise. That's absurd.