Underfunding the NHS, overseeing the trains don’t operate to a minimal level – it’s hard to point to a single properly functioning department

Here’s a thought. How would you tell if your MP is on strike? Especially if they were a backbencher. Under no obligation to do anything very much. Just take a look at the chamber of the House of Commons – Tuesday’s statement on industrial action, for example – and it’s seldom more than a quarter full. If that.

Some may be involved on committee or constituency business. But it’s fair to assume some might just have decided, after the appropriate consultation with themselves, to withdraw their labour. To picket by pursuing an alternative career.

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