200 miles from Westminster, the council estate where it's hard to believe MPs can't live on £80 grand a year
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe government has been focussed on two big issues in recent weeks. Firstly the UN Climate Change conference, Cop 26, and then the debate over MPs having a second jobs, in the fall-out from what was seen as a botched Tory attempt to clear an MP who broke lobbying rules. But on the streets of one of England's most deprived communities, this week, problems much closer to home have been on people's minds.
Lower Falinge, in Rochdale, is in the middle of a regeneration project, but with high levels of unemployment and a history of poorer health and education outcomes, q uestions about the future are taking second place to worries about today, and the idea that an MP's wage - around £80,000 a year - isn't enough to live on seems like a bad joke.
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