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Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

"Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.