MPs: Working Hard... For YOU!
Breast is best
So, you are an MP and you've just got wind that two local hospitals are to be downgraded. What do you do?
Well, you could meet with senior managers and local staff to discuss the issue, possibly even draw up a petition. You could talk to Ministers to make them aware of the situation, and try to raise awareness amongst your constituents. Blitz the local press with outraged releases, encourage residents to write to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Health demanding they reconsider, and try to persuade the Speaker to let you in on a Prime Minister's Question, as the matter is one of the utmost urgency.
Or, if you're Peter Bottomley and Tim Laughton, you could pose for a calendar with a selection of well-endowed young ladies dressed (and Westmonster uses this term advisedly) as "saucy" nurses to, er, "promote a very serious cause."
It's a tough job, but someone's got to take one for the team, eh?
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