MPs Holidays

We are being told that MPs are to have the longest Christmas break for twenty odd days, the longest break since records began thirty years ago.

I disagree with the use of the term since records began. Why, because as a student of WWI I obtained a copy of Hansard from my local library for August 1914.

Now then, war against Germany was declared on 4th August 1914. Within a couple of days MPs went on their summer holidays because they surely could not miss their holidays. Now if I know this then there must be records, just because nobody can be bothered to do the research does not chnage the facts.

In the meantime I thought that there was a global economic crisis, how can the MPs justify taking such a long holiday when we know that is when they should be in parliament to handle 'the crisis' terrible things always happen in long holidays.