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    Bob - back to your point about the USA. There is a big consititutional difference, the Executive and the Legislature in the USA are seperate wheras in the UK the Executive is derived from the Legislature and sit in parliament. Our form of Government does require a larger legislature than the USA but.... you do make a good point even so, we still have too many MPs.

    Personally I have suggested 500 MPs in the past but even then, if you have a Government with a majority of just one, that means out of 251 Government MPs around 90 are on the Government's payroll. That being the case the power of the legislature to hold the Government to account is reduced.

    Cameron's policy of a 10% cut in the number of MPs is a reasonable compromise.

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