Regularly we find MPs complaining both about our reluctance to vote and our disdain of them.
Yet Labour MP Peter Broadley is bringing in a bill to prevent MPs from doing outside work except in very special cases.
Tory MPs threatened that, unless he withdrew the bill, they would filibuster out other bills. So, under pressure, he withdrew it.
On average, MPs vote 83 per cent of the time. However, those with no outside interests vote 91 per cent of the time but those who have them only 65 per cent - some hardly ever.
If MPs want us to respect them more and the work they do, they should be more conscientious about the work we pay them to do.
-R G Jenkins, Hove
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