SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Both of them?
Nigel Farage
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Both of them?
If you vote for Farage it's not likely to be out of expectation of him being a diligent constituency MP.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Probably found the people of Clacton not racist enough, so buggered off to the republican convention instead.
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Im not sure the electorate thought that but what can you expect from someone who votes for someone like him.
Do most people ever have any contact with their MP or know what work they actually do? (I don't) Surely with someone as well known as Farage the people voting for him have a reasonable expectation of what they're getting and one of those things is a ton of self-promotion.
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Yes, I for one have had several contacts with my MP.
That's why I said most!
Silas Loom
Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.
MPs are supposed to represent the interests of the people who didn’t vote for them as well, though.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
They do,they represent the people who buy them
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Of the full and frank sort of discussion?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
I've verbally abused my MP on several occasions too.
I suppose so, although in their case you'd think him being out of the country would be the best result.
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
No offense because I count several MPs among my friends but you're an oddball.
LakieLady
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I did when we had an LD MP (1997-2015). I had had a lot of dealings with him when he was a county councillor, he lived locally and I often used to bump into him in Waitrose. As did half the town, the poor sod, he'd try and do a bit of shopping and end up picking up casework at the same time.
The useless Tory that replaced him didn't live in the constituency and only set foot here when she had to. Not long before the election, I happened to park near her constituency office and was highly amused to see that the flat above it had large Lib Dem posters in every window.
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I did say MP in the singular as opposed to MPs
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Most people no but they are supposed to run weekly surgeries in which green ink writers and people in genuine distress can come to them to raise issues or seek help, whether thats with food banks or fuel poverty or objecting to Themuns Building Houses. Alongside that replying to emails and letters on similar lines. You'll see MPs waving letters or quoting people they've spoke to talk about it in PMQ's - Jeremy Corbyn mentioned one of his lot being very concerned about her bins when he was LOTO
So its a small percentage of people who deal with their MP but still an important part of the job.
Dom Traynor
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What I mean is most people don't have contact with their MP
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Ok, but why not, don't people care? Sometimes you have a problem you cannot sort out, sometimes they or their party do something you disagree with, sometimes you feel they could do something better.
I have lobbies my MP for change, to stop things. I have also tried offering suggestions to change certain things
Isn't that what your MP is for. There is more than one way to promote change and goodness knows I've tried a few.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Your mp isn't really there to represent you but to represent their party in parliament
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Not in my book
Boo Radley75
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My new MP lives over the road from me so I regularly see him around and am on friendly terms with him. Had a Tory MP for 15 years before that. Despite the party he represented and many of his views, he was around regularly in town, often used to see him up the cafe. The Labour MP before that was bloody useless though. He got a job in the defence office so was heavily involved in the Iraq thing and licking Blair's arse that he never had much time for the town. Had to contact him once and it was just his minions dealing with me, very ineffectually. He did invite some of us for a chat and a glass of wine, at the start of his time in Parliament but forgot the wine, which I wasn't very impressed by.
Everything Goes
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Every now and again constituents figure out their MP doesn't care or even visit their constituency and they vote them out. Best example is Truss, too busy in self promotion and sucking up to Trump.
Everything Goes
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Did he forget the wine as it wasn't claimable under parliamentary expenses?
Boo Radley75
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Only took the good people of Lichfield 32 years to see through Michael Fabricunt. Not sure why it took them so long to realise he's just a self promoting attention whore. It wasn't like he was subtle about it!
Everything Goes
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Only took the good people of Lichfield 32 years to see through Michael Fabricunt. Not sure why it took them so long to realise he's just a self promoting attention whore. It wasn't like he was subtle about it!
I wonder if the drapes match the curtains as in wild unkept bush, ditto Johnson, probably best not to think about it actually
Boo Radley75
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He did end up having to pay back nearly 3 grand for a garden table and a suitcase so you never know.
Everything Goes
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He did end up having to pay back nearly 3 grand for a garden table and a suitcase so you never know.
Was the suitcase and garden table from Harrods?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I think you'll find that's how the public is supposed to think it works.
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Yes I agree however most people don't feel the same way as us, we're odd like that.
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