Article: Too much time on MPs' hands ; It may surprise your readers to hear that I have a certain sympathy with MPs who, from reports in the Daily Telegraph, spend a lot of time shopping and changing houses and flats in order to make money and improve their personal status. The problem is that they haven't enough to do.

It may surprise your readers to hear that I have a certain sympathy with MPs who, from reports in the Daily Telegraph, spend a lot of time shopping and changing houses and flats in order to make money and improve their personal status. The problem is that they haven't enough to do.

They were elected to govern our country, but most of our laws, 80 per cent, come from unelected commissioners in Brussels and Strasbourg.

The laws are gold-plated by our vast army of bureaucrats, which ...

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