We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about the news that the Government is willing to withhold funding from councils who fail to repair potholes. Here is what they thought:
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name's Theo Huston-Betts and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about potholes.
00:05And that's because it's been announced recently that councils could risk losing funding if they fail to maintain and fix potholes out on the roads.
00:12We want to know if people think that's right, if councils should be held responsible for fixing these potholes and how much of a problem they are for them.
00:19We live in the middle of nowhere, so we live in like a really rural area where there's potholes literally every three seconds on the road.
00:29So I would say it's probably a good thing.
00:33Yeah, I mean like, fix the potholes innit?
00:37I think the government getting directly involved in what the council does in, you know, specific places is, like, I think it can be good.
00:48And in this case I think it is, but I think that if they were to continue this kind of behaviour they would have to be like a case-by-case thing to make sure no weird business occurs.