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The Scotsman reports that

“MPS are to get an extra week off at the end of this month - just weeks after coming back from their bumper three-month summer recess - because the government has run out of business.

Harriet Harman, the Commons leader, broke the good news to MPs yesterday, also outlining even more time away from Westminster for them over the coming year. MPs will spend one in three weeks out of Westminster - taking their time away from the Commons from 15 weeks to 18 weeks.”

The first commenter on the site asks “Why do we need a constant stream of new legislation anyway?”

Well unfortunately for that person, the EU is there to step into the breach and continue the endless stream of new legalisation.

The Bruges Group reports that from the 29th August to 21st September the EU has passed 101 new laws which will impact on the UK. This adds to the 159 issued the previous month the 44 From 11th to 18th July the 33 From 1st to 10th July the EU, the109 From 20th June to 30th June, the 112 from 27th May to 19th June and so on.

Of course as our MPs do not get the chance to debate any of these, and seemingly as they have very little lese to do with their time, perhaps we should start debating a Westminster cull.

If we did it might give them pause when it comes to debating the EU Constitution, they might start to see that with ever more laws being decided in the EU being beyond the power of Westminster, there will be an ever forceful argument about the need for so many MPs.