Commons Not Sitting Friday; MPs Urged to Spend Long Weekend Experiencing Scottish Public Transport
Both Houses return Monday. Perth offers MPs a free trial of a Saturday on the A9, with flask.
Westminster, about to go quiet for one whole Friday. Photo: DaniKauf, “Westminster palace”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
The House of Commons will not sit on Friday, with both Houses returning on Monday 2 November, giving MPs a long weekend that Perthetic readers are keen to fill for them.
Suggested itineraries sent in by readers include a Halloween evening trying to park near Perth city centre, a Saturday afternoon at Rugby Park watching St Johnstone, and “one full day on the A9 behind a caravan, so they understand”.
“It’s not a holiday, it’s constituency work,” said a Westminster insider, using the phrase in its traditional sense.
A Perth taxi driver offered to drive any visiting MP from the station to anywhere in the city “via every set of temporary traffic lights we’ve got, at no extra charge, just so they know”.
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