[jambutty]

There is one other point that seems to have escaped the notice of, or at least a comment on MP’s, by the contributors to this thread.

Many MP’s have secondary jobs in the form of consultancies and/or directorships.

My question is simple. Do we want part time MP’s? Because that is what some people have got.

Surely representing thousands of constituents has to be a full time job. And if it isn’t then an MP could handle a larger constituency and a larger constituency would mean fewer constituencies and thus fewer MP’s to make it a full time job.

Apart from a truly independent MP’s salaries and perks review body, no MP should have a secondary job (paid or unpaid). No man or woman can have allegiance to two masters and we, the public, have to be the only master that an MP has.