MPs are public servants. They are there to serve the public and to make decisions that they think are in the best interests of the majority of them, Simple as that.
Absolutely this. If not then you cannot represent the interests of the whole of your electorate.
Caroline Lucas has been a rock of support to a friend of mine who happens to live in her constituency and be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory. People of every persuasion, political and otherwise, got help...
Initially she was up against a very left leaning Labour party in hoc to the unions and latterly to a system that was briefly four party in a first past the post system with the Labour Party utterly divided. Meanwhile in 1983 a war saved her bacon. History doesn't look good for Labour.
To be honest this is all heading one of two ways. The first is a left wing Labour Party under Corbyn that will be true to Labour's history and popular with the (new) members but completely unelectable as far as the nation as a whole goes. The natural conclusion to that is the deselection of...
Not sneaky - just skim read the quote you put and thought it was the OP. I will edit my post in a sec to take your quote out.
Don't think the far left are cuddly though. They're as ugly as the fascists.
Those who voted to bomb in the Labour Party are under sustained attacks from the left on social media. The Express and Mail are all over it, obviously, so here is the story on the BBC from the point of view of Corbyn dealing with it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34993447
Kyle IS an...