And that's why I think that for those MP's who've clearly been shown, proved to do something wrong, particularly those that are then suspended in the House of Commons, there should be a mechanism where a small number of people in the constituency can say, "I don't want this MP to carry on serving me".
Testifying before the committee in April, Mr Clegg said the plans were not intended to give voters "an unlimited, unqualified, untrammelled right to trigger a by-election, whenever you happen to feel like it, because you don't like the cut of the jib of your local MP".
"We don't want to overload the market, " explained Mr Burns, MP for Chelmsford.
And if the voters don't like the result - they can throw the MP out at the next election.
The Labour MP acknowledges that he doesn't have a public office or hold surgeries.
"Don't suppose Kinnock really wants a censored press either" tweets David Jones MP in response.
"I took this up with the Football League to ask them and they confirmed to me that because no individual investor owned more than 10% of the club they didn't know who any investors in the club were, " the Folkestone and Hythe MP said.
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The meeting between the first and deputy first ministers, the North Belfast MP, Nigel Dodds, and the area's assembly members won't be easy.
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Conservative MP Conor Burns told the Daily Telegraph the sentiment behind the T-shirts was "sickening".
But Labour MP Rosie Cooper wondered why the government didn't "trust the British people to decide".
Later still, as an MP, I realised to my shock that this wasn't confined to inner-city London.
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Or, his complaints that we shouldn't ruin the beginning of the election campaign with stories of a very junior Conservative MP canoodling on a park bench.
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