WFP and politics

[PhædrusR]

yes if you want them to a proper job, do you realize just how much correspondence alone they have to deal with ? usually a MP with have one researcher and one assistant (at least) because they are always being asked to look into things, correspond (especially with councils) with institutions and then have to understand law, prep questions, prep for select committees. Also most live away from their family for the week that the house is sitting.

Few of us on here would or could want to do their role.

Agreed, well said. With the advent of email, twitter, social media too they get a lot more comms and casework, much easier to contact your MP than write and stamp and post a letter or phone call.
After you filter out the nutters, repeat correspondees, etc.

Suspect many MPs need the staff to deal with the day to day casework so they can concentrate on parliamentary and political work, bills, legislation, select committees. The important stuff to them.

Rather be doing that than dealing with Muriel's problem with her neighbour Hammy's overflowing water gutter affecting her damp course, with the Council doing nothing about it.