MPs work in two places - Parliament and their constituency
Posted by harriet in Uncategorized | October 19th, 2007
As Leader of the House of Commons I published the calendar for the Parliamentary year yesterday. Today the newspapers are full of reports of MPs holidays. But MPs work in two places - so it does not mean they are on holiday when they are not in Westminster. MPs work some of the time in the House of Commons and some of the time in their constituency. National journalists don’t see the hard work MPs do in their constituencies but it is vital to local people. Many MPs even harder in their consitituency than they do in the House of Commons! Nowadays constituents expect to see their MP. Residents of Carlisle, Newcastle and towns and cities far from London are entitled to know that their MP is in the place they represent - as well as speaking up in Parliament.
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1. Dmitry | December 23rd, 2007 at 18:31
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This is difficult for MP’s whose constituency is far north and who have families too.
All that travelling and loneliness, I don’t envy them at all!
2. gerardus kohlinger | January 1st, 2008 at 7:56
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We do agree that MP’s work are not seen by people for the work they realy do, but not in all cases, our MP stands out for work she does in her westminster part of her area but falls flat for the kensington area, was partly to blame for the loss of st.charles ward to the tory’s as we know from first hand, is to blame for the increase of crime due to her support for business and landlord support against the normal peoples wishes, have made the work for the police more difficult in supporting landlord/business proposals again against normal people wishes so that drug dealing is now on residents doorstep, claims to work hard for the older and the disabled but in kensington is that restricted to lead visiting disabled groups to westminster while actual help fails, even supported the wheelclamping of blue badge holders if it is in the landlords interest.
We are disabled, we are old we do NOT get any help just for that reason and the best the MP could do is write a letter which had no result while the private OT did the same with great sucsess and followed it up.
As strong supporters of labour in good and bad times we do not longer support this MP, who simple seeks to promote herself to disregards her voters if it does not suit her. In this critic we are not standing alone.
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