Earlier this year, Reform UK MPs walked out of the Commons rather than sit through a debate about transparency in political funding. Their own funding. Nobody stopped them. Nobody recorded it. As far as anyone can tell officially, it never happened.
I'm a Green Party and 38 Degrees member. I pay my taxes, I vote, I try to actually engage with politics and honestly the bare minimum I expect back is for the people I'm paying to turn up and do their jobs.
Here's the thing that gets me. Voting records are already public. You can see exactly how every MP voted on anything. But whether they actually bothered to sit through the debate beforehand? Invisible. An MP can skip every single debate that matters to their constituents and there's no public record of it anywhere.
This isn't a dig at any one party. Plenty of MPs across the board don't show up. This is just about basic transparency. If 100,000 people care enough to sign a petition, the people we're paying to represent us should at least be in the room. And we should be able to see whether they were.
