How many mps should there be in westminster?

[blake]

prosperous Tory constituencies are going to be generally easier for an MP to represent than poorer Labour ones.

 

what about the Liberal ones? Oh forget that, there aren't any.

 

the SNP are on a learning curve there. Quite a few of them are representing what would be Tory consituencies, if they were in England.

Edited October 13, 2015 by blake

[LeMaquis]

the SNP are on a learning curve there. Quite a few of them are representing what would be Tory consituencies, if they were in England.

 

Well they wouldn't be Scottish constituencies if they were in England. 60 years ago the Tories had 50% of the votes and MPs in Scotland. 40 years later they had lost two thirds of their vote and all their MPs. If successive governments - Labour and Tory - hadn't treated Scotland like a distant outpost of the empire the SNP would still be a fringe party. The Scots think differently and no longer put up with the English superiority complex.

 

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Alternative view: real-world jobs make them better MPs.

There are too many of them who have no experience of anything outside Westminster.

 

So spending time not doing your job as an MP makes you a better MP.

[truman]

 

So spending time not doing your job as an MP makes you a better MP.

 

Can you define an MPs job?

[alchemist]

Can you define an MPs job?

 

I would say primarily,

looking after the rights and interests of your constituents

attending as many debates in the house as possible

 

I would say it is NOT

getting as many part time business jobs as possible

sitting on the boards of companies instead of being in the house

 

As a matter of interest what is YOUR definition?

[Gamston]

Alternative view: real-world jobs make them better MPs.

There are too many of them who have no experience of anything outside Westminster.

 

I agree there are far too many career politicians .