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Originally Posted by joeysteele
Ooh, I personally would hope when you reach voting age you will re-think as to not voting,not all politicians are a bad lot jf, many work really hard for their constituents in Parliament and even in the local authorities too.
Sadly, there are too many opportunists in politics at present and that is why I am against more tiers of politicians such as mayors and I am even against in the main wholesale reform of the House of Lords too. Another elected chamber would cost likely far more than it does now.
We are getting a reduction in MPs at the next election, 50 less, hopefully some reduction to the numbers in the House of Lords will come in the future too but my hope is that soon what we really achieve and have in politics are 'quality' MPs and Councillors etc; rather than 'quantity'.
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As the population increases, the number of MPs representing them is decreasing. It senseless. I wish I could show you the workload of an MP's caseworker for one week, trying to sort out problems their constituents are having with all kinds of bodies and agencies - immigration, child welfare, benefits, housing, planning, a massive range of topics. The offices of all MPs across the parties are currently working at full capacity. They don't take the recess off, and most of the offices are open 51 weeks a year. Now they will have even more constituents to look after with the same number of staff. And still people think reducing the MPs will be a good thing. An MP is just a figurehead for a whole officefull of people who work for every constituent, whether they voted for that particular MP or not.