[andrewb]

Im a firm believer in the constituents voting an MP to use his own judgment in parliament.

Like garinda says, the majority of the population would probably want the death penalty, however thankfully the MP's make their own judgment on it and vote overwhelmingly against it.

In the case of Iraq I happen to think he was wrong, but he believed he was right and thats what people voted him to do, we can't have a referendum for every vote in parliament, and if we did, the country would be in a much sorrier state than it is now.