What's the cost of political chaos?
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Are MPs Under Too Much Pressure or Scrutiny?
I think that's part of the psychology sometimes behind this stuff. And I also think these severance payments, they are set out in legislation,. So Parliament decided to do this Totally within the rules. No government has changed it since then. You know, we've had Labour governments, we'veHad Conservative governments and coalition. They could have changed it. But every party has been, and I think being an MP is a difficult job. Like they are working all hours of the day, as you say, travelling all across the country ... under huge amounts of scrutiny, huge amounts of pressure. Yes, individually it's a lot of money for a person but compared to sort of the average calories
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