ALL IN IT TOGETHER..

Last evening, after a tediously lengthy `adjournment debate` our Members of Parliament broke up for yet another `holiday.`   This time they will be away from the mother of parliaments for 17 days for their Whitsun break.   When they reappear, on Monday 11 June, they will be there for just over a month as the Summer break begins on 17 July.

The Summer break goes on until 3 September and just a few weeks after that they`ll be off again for their conference season.   Now of course, MPs insist they are not `on holiday` because sitting in the House of Commons is only part of the job and they may be right, but the other part of the job seems to comprise meeting their constituents and attending constituency events.   

Sounds real tough, meeting people, going to events and I wonder what the real workers of this country make of all this - the refuse collectors, the shift workers, the agricultural workers, the steel workers and the rest.   But then we`re all in it together.  Aren`t we?