Christmas Holidays for MPs

about MPs and the extended christmas holiday they are taking. I think that there will definitely be a spring election. The MPs are going to their constituencies to prepare their labour electorate for voting. There will be a lot about how labour is thinking of the working family, their safe custody of the economy in the global economic crisis. They will soon announce further troop withdrawals from Iraq, in other words the Iraqi government will not accept an extension of the UN mandate. They will accept the Americans but there is no further point in the British presence. anyway, we are needed in the killing fields of Afghanistan.

Furthermore, back to the MPs holidays. First reports on the Today programme referred to the longest christmas break since records began. I pointed out in a mail the error of that comment because I had referred back to Hansard in August 1914 to show that MPs had taken a holiday within days of the declaration of war against Germany, so there were records. Now, they refer to the longest christmas break in recent history. See how the wonderful Internet can work!