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Originally Posted by Flyboy
To be honest, despite your rather colourful rhetoric, I would have thought that honouring the commitments to her constituents was more important, don't you think?
What is there to object about that?
You wouldn't be getting a bit tribal with your politics, now would you.  |
Nice try but no, I wouldn't regarding playing bingo instead of being sworn in and participating in parliament as being 'honouring the commitments to her constituents', I would regard it as trying to avoid doing her job as an MP, which necessarily involves things like being at Parliament to be sworn in and to attend the speaker's election, by going and playing bingo which she will have plenty of her own time unoccupied by parliamentary business to do in the future.
Playing bingo is hardly 'getting the best for the region'. To get the best for the region she needs to actually be at Westminster putting the case forward for that region, not ticking numbers off a bingo card.
I would have given the same comment regardless of which party the MP came from. To suggest being too busy to attend parliament on account of promising to play a game with constituents is ridiculous. If it were serious constituency business I would give it more credence.