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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.
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The game of bingo was not for her own enjoyment, but for her to be able to get to know her constituencies a bit better. Rather than making several trips to London and back, paid for by the taxpayer, I would have thought that even you would applaud that. You seem to be getting a bit desperate in finding things to criticise the Labour MPs about. I would have thought that you would have led with
Labour MP Suspended After Expenses Charge
Or even the fourth homes scandal afforded to leading Conservative ministers. Now I know that they are traditionally allowed such favours, but when Cameron screamed about the excesses of governments, don't you think that it is a bit rich, now that they are in power?
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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.
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So you mean, when you said:
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Newcastle would vote for a vomit covered turd if it had a red rosette?
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You really meant that they would vote for anybody in a rosette, did you?
*Awaits patiently for next excuse.*