Alan! according to this website john has spoken in 64 debates! How can you say "where are the debates?" That's daft.
As for confusing local and national duties, no, I'm not confusing them. A critical part of an MP's function is to represent people when they feel they are being wronged. You go see them and they try to do something bout it. We found Keith Bradley bloody useless on that score when we approached him. We got the impression, rightly or wrongly , that he didnt want to get involved with our grievances to any serious extent, ESPECIALLY if that grievance were directed at his labour colleagues. We may have got him wrong, but that is the impression we got, and , bluntly, it turned us from Labour to Lib Dem voters.
