FOLLOWING ten years of austerity which allowed the rich to get richer whilst the poorer got poorer and with child poverty rising, a £3k increase in MPs’ salaries is now being proposed. Presumably the Prime Minister is unable to afford a nanny on a salary of £150k.
This happening in the middle of an epidemic which is causing greater poverty to the poor when a majority of Tory MPs refused to extend free school meals beyond term time for the poorest children.
Our MPs say that the priority is the economy. Can I remind them that people are the first principle of consideration in the economic theory of studying the means of production and distribution of goods and services.
Alan Kelly, Ferryhill.
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