00:00My concern is what we've actually got now is we've got this absolute inability for anybody to
00:06put up the salaries of MPs and ministers and I have had this argument and lost it resoundedly
00:12every single time I've tried. Well it just looks terrible doesn't it for MPs to say
00:19we're voting on our pay rise and we're all unanimous. I mean it's just impossible. I totally
00:24get that but what we have instead now is a sort of soft and hidden corruption which is if you
00:29want
00:29to partly because of what's happening to housing costs in central London that if you want to live
00:35within commutable distance of SW1 and you want to be able to devote the hours of your working life
00:43that you feel like you need to and have a family, manage a house, do all of these things it's
00:50almost impossible to do that and live the kind of normal-ish middle-class lifestyle unless you are
00:57heavily subsidised by either inherited wealth, previous London housing wealth or a spouse.
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