More than one in 20 MPs have been suspended from the House of Commons, left parliament altogether or been stripped of their party whip in the wake of misconduct allegations since the last general election.
A total of 34 MPs out of 650 have quit or been disciplined by their party or by parliamentary colleagues over claims of bad behaviour since December 2019, according to an analysis by the Financial Times.
it makes you wonder what it was like before the new recall laws came in. The threat of actual consequences means people are getting punished, rather than what happened before where the Whips kept a black book of things to leverage people with. Oh you had an affair? Well you better vote this way. Oh theres a lobby paying you to ask questions and support a law? you better vote that way.
Whips generally had a rule to burn their notebooks on leaving office.
Somewhat more serious matters are alleged to have been covered up by Tory Whips in the past.
right but thats not how blackmail works. anything, literally anything is blackmail if the person being blackmailed dosnt want anyone to know about it. Its about machinery of power
Dose not bode well for the public trust in Westminster. That no one questions the actual use of blackmail to correl our representatives. Just how bad that material may or may not be.
These people are supposed to be chosen to represent the will of the local population. Ingnoring how crap fptp already is for representation. Adding the overt use of blackmail to ensure party lines. Really dose place the whole system under question.