I think it was a legitimate comment and I mean Twitter is edgy and you know it provokes debate. It looks on this occasion that as if it has caused a serious problem and we need to go back and look at that.

David Wright MP 16/02/2010

on his "scum-sucking pig" Twitter post

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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

Boris Johnson 2003

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Normally when I'm asked on holiday and I say what I do, I say I'm a traffic warden. That makes me much more popular.

Stephen Pound 31/08/2003

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A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.

Beverly Baxter 1946

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Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke 03/11/1774

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