Do We Expect Too Much Of Our MPs?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
With constituents asking their MP to deal with everything from arguments about hedges to parking tickets, are politicians are struggling to focus on the other part of their job - passing better laws? Matt speaks to Charles Walker and a range of other MPs about the rising levels of casework.
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss President Biden's memory issues, Labour's climate U-turn, and Kemi Badenoch's 'star power'.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you get when you mix bicycle helmets? |
| 0:04.0 | Langerie? |
| 0:06.0 | Hmm? |
| 0:08.0 | And vegan ice cream. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, workspace, actually. With 4,000 of London's most original businesses already calling |
| 0:20.5 | workspace home, whatever it is you do, there's a space for you here. |
| 0:25.5 | It all happens at workspace. search workspace.co. UK. |
| 0:30.4 | From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular change in the last hundred years |
| 0:38.0 | and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster. |
| 0:41.0 | From electric cars to the Metiverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions and genetic |
| 0:46.6 | sequencing. |
| 0:47.6 | We're investing in the companies that are not just changing the world today, but are also |
| 0:52.2 | shaping the future. The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bailey Gifford |
| 0:57.4 | Invest in Progress, Capital at Risk. Hello, I'm Matt Chorley. This is Politics Without the Boing Bits. Today, what is your MP for? Are they there for you to use and abuse as some of our |
| 1:17.2 | focus group participants think are they there to pass laws or just sort out your |
| 1:22.4 | many problems we'll hear from MPs dealing with |
| 1:25.5 | neighbor disputes, hedge rouse and even someone who complained they've been |
| 1:30.2 | banned from their local GP and then it turned out they tried to attack their local |
| 1:34.5 | GP with a blunt instrument. |
| 1:37.1 | So we'll ask, should you stop annoying your MP? |
| 1:40.9 | Plus, the columnist today, Jane Merrick and James Marriott on whether we're all |
| 1:46.0 | getting more stupid and of course we'll look back on what we've learned this |
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