MPs lose interest in their jobs.

Genuinely, the party that have best served us locally in the quarter century we have lived here have been the LibDems.

The latest MP, Mary Robinson, has been useless. She toed the party line a few years ago and voted (as she was told to) to continue to allow sewage to be poured into our rivers.

Now there's an election coming up, guess what?

Her leaflets are declaring war on the water companies, that rivers will be cleaned up and BIG fines will be meted out to those who fail to do this.

I wonder, if (by some miracle) the Tories got their snouts back in the trough, what would happen to that pledge?
 
The trouble with spreading MP's more thinly is that there constituencies get bigger, EU size, so we will have the MP for East Anglia etc. A fair system of PR will enable local representation and reflect national popularity. Although constituency MP's are mostly lobby fodder (apart from the minority that make it as Ministers etc), they can topple leaders.
 
securespark said:
Genuinely, the party that have best served us locally in the quarter century we have lived here have been the LibDems.

The latest MP, Mary Robinson, has been useless. She toed the party line a few years ago and voted (as she was told to) to continue to allow sewage to be poured into our rivers.

Now there's an election coming up, guess what?

Her leaflets are declaring war on the water companies, that rivers will be cleaned up and BIG fines will be meted out to those who fail to do this.

I wonder, if (by some miracle) the Tories got their snouts back in the trough, what would happen to that pledge?
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A good example of how near but how far constituency MP's are from real power. Taking back control has its limits.
 
JohnD said:
"Lucy Fisher, Whitehall Editor YESTERDAY

The working day for MPs in the House of Commons chamber has been shorter on average this parliamentary session than in any other in the past quarter century, according to a Financial Times analysis.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of presiding over a “zombie parliament”, with opposition parties arguing the relative shortness of the average parliamentary day shows an administration running “out of steam”.

The average duration of a Commons sitting day in the current parliamentary session, which began in November, has been 7 hours and 9 minutes, a record low since New Labour came to power in 1997, the FT found."

FT.com

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I suppose some of them have important jobs in the media. The related thing happening is the increasing number of MP's who are standing down at the next GE. The biggest vote of confidence in Rishy's government you could wish for. Rumour has it Ress sprogg's seat might be at risk
 
Almost 100 MPs will stand down at the next election – and for many it won’t come a moment too soon. Harriet Harman, Charles Walker, Caroline Lucas and others talk about what life inside Westminster is really like...
 
motorbiking said:
realistically - how many do we need - 100 - 200?
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Impossible to say unless you really understand the day to day workload of an MP who isn’t a minister, shadow minister or on a Commitee

Then there are the MPs who live in areas where there constituents are really spread out and those near cities where they are all close together

The coelition was supposed to reduce the number to 600

I’d say that 600 sounds about right (so about 1 MP for each person over 18 in the UK ) and increase the experience of life before they can stand AND increase their income too
 
Notch7 said:
Interesting article, I’ve just read almost all of it.
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It surprised me to read Caroline Lucas only gets to hear about the days events on radio news, as she's the only Green Party member in the House. No wonder the UK environmental policy is allowed to slide away down the agenda.
 
Unless they're raising something, why do they go there? Just to vote the way the whips say.
Most of them most of the time wouldn't be briefed much on the matters of the day so there's no point being there.
 
As soon as the national media decide you don't fit in with their beliefs/ agenda, you are given a very hard time. We have a "variation" of democracy.
 
Yup, they pander to the loudest of the newspaper-supporting public, who can be antagonised by the crap some of the papers write.
The tabloids don't need beliefs, they just need to pick opinions which are the easiest to shout about in a one-liner requiring least thought. Good for business.
It's positive feedback. Buy the newspaper, get your "they are terrible, I deserve better", position supported.
The Government is painted as evil/corrupt/incompetent/out-to-get-you, as it has been for the last 50 odd years I can remember.

Sometimes it's true and needs to be called out, but it just becomes tiresome and silly when it's the only opinion some people want to ejaculate. Usually the same people who are least competent to 'have a clue' or do better, and the quickest to brainlessly dismiss those with comments they want to rail against, as extremists of one sort or another.
 
Odds said:
It surprised me to read Caroline Lucas only gets to hear about the days events on radio news, as she's the only Green Party member in the House. No wonder the UK environmental policy is allowed to slide away down the agenda.
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Yes apparently a party only gets a whip if it has more than 3 MPs

Greens will get a lot of Corbyn supporters voting for it in next election, so it might get more MPs.

Sadly those militant left wing activists are infiltrating Green Party with their misery.
 
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