Talk:Member of parliament

List of British MPs

How about a List of British MPs? I'm thinking past and present, so it would be a huge list, but we have a list of people after all... Any thoughts? I'd say there should be a master list of all MPs, lists of MPs for each constituency, and lists of MPs by when they were elected (already started by some). Yes, it is a massive project! --Sam 11:43, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It seems the category system would be the best way to create this list. --Sam Francis

I agree there is lots of interesting missing UK history here, let alone elsewhere. What about the history of Women MPs for example? As recently as 1851 the idea was considered humour [1] but when was the first? 1920 or so? How long after women got the vote? --BozMo|talk 11:53, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Non-British MPs

Aren't the Canadian MP's still MP's...

This article seems not to be complete. Why don't we add Swedisch, Finnish, French,Dutch, etc. MP's. Why can't a MP be elected through proportional representation. I would say that this article doesn't make any sense. Gangulf 12:21, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Feel free to make the necessary additions and changes. --Sam Francis 19:26, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

UK MPs Term Limit

It's not correct, is it, that MPs terms are limited to five years? The length of a parliament is limited to five years, I agree, but if a dissolution wasn't called after five years, MPs would remain MPs? Dupont Circle 18:35, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No, parliament are automatically disolve after 5 years if it's not requested before that. From Parliament of the United Kingdom - Each Parliament, after a number of sessions, comes to an end, either by the command of the Sovereign or by effluxion of time, the former being more common in modern times. ... Originally, there was no fixed limit on the length of a Parliament, but the Triennial Act 1694 set the maximum duration at three years. As the frequent elections were deemed inconvenient, the Septennial Act 1716 extended the maximum duration to seven years, but the Parliament Act 1911 reduced it to five years. During the Second World War, the term was temporarily extended to ten years by Acts of Parliament. Since the end of the war in 1945, however, the maximum term has remained five years. -- KTC 00:14, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

An MP's term is limited to five years. There is no limit, however, on how many terms an MP may serve. - Cafemusique 01:19, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

So the law doesn't say that MP's term are limited to five years. The law says that parliaments can only last five years and that MPs cease to be MPs when parliament is dissolved or expires Dupont Circle 06:48, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What about India?

I don't know anything about it but doesn't India have MPs much like the UK does? --Feitclub 22:00, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Addressing an MP

It would be good to have some information here on how to properly address an MP of a particular parliamentary body in written correspondence. US senators are usually addressed as "Senator such-and-such", representatives as "Congress<man>/<woman>/<person> so-and-so"; I'd like to know how to address an MP. Maybe it's just "Mr/Mrs/Ms"?

That's how it works in my country, yes. Sometimes, in print, they get the letters "MP" added after their names if it's not clear from the context, but they're generally just "Mr. Smith", and so forth. I can't speak for other countries, but I believe it's much the same. -- Vardion 01:37, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

In the Commonwealth of Nations, if they are members of the Privy Council their names are prefixed by The Right Honourable (Rt. Hon.) in formal contexts but that is unrelated to being an MP. In the UK Parliament, MPs address each other as "the (Right) Honourable member (for [constituency])" (without their names), but only The Right Honorable (for privy councillors) as opposed to The Honorable is ever used in front of their names.

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 23:49, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Capitalisation of article title

When used as a title obviously it should be capitalised (e.g.: Joe Bloggs Member of Parliament) but then the acronym is always used. Elsewhere it makes little sense (i.e.: it should be Joe Bloggs is a member of parliament). Even member of Parliament would be just acceptable if it was clear we were talking about a specific parliament (as Parliament could be shorthand for Parliament of ...) but we aren't in this article. The same thing applies to simlar articles like Assembly Member.

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 00:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Is not the House of Lords PART of the British Parliament?

My friends in the UK are describing the Wikipedia as "a great work of fiction" based in part on the claim that an MP is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district and that, therefore, members of the House of Lords are not Members of Parliament. I see absolutely NO sources or references in the article for restricting the term MP to the Commons in the UK (There seems to be a little somehting for that in Australia.) Can someone provide an authoritative reference? Pzavon 01:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Well it's undoubtedly the case that some peers are 'members of parliament' but they are not nor have they ever been called either that or MPs. Alci12 20:21, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

That answer rather escapes the point, as the question isn't about peers who are eligible to be elected to the British House of Commons. Members of the House of Lords aren't ever referred to in the UK as members of parliament, although the House of Lords is of course part of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and they are members of it. We could call it an anomoly that somehow over the centuries members of the House of Commons have come to monopolize the description 'member of parliament'. Moonraker2 (talk) 16:51, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

This is obviously speculation, but I would hazard the guess that Commons members would have adopted "MP" in order to make clear that they were Members of Parliament, whereas peers haven't ever needed to do the same - they already had titles, which (until very recently) would have come with a seat in the Lords, so it didn't need to be stated seperately. 86.170.165.125 (talk) 21:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Missing: Parliament of Kenya

Kenyan Parliament, homepage http://www.bunge.go.ke/parliament/ To be added --RicHard (talk) 14:31, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Details on UK MP's remuneration to new section?

I think the topical importance of MP's remuneration means that this section warrants its own entry. I'll look at seeing how this might be done Cloversmate (talk) 22:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Welsh Assembly and Welsh Government

The subsection on Wales currently starts:

  The Welsh Assembly ... forms the Welsh Assembly Government, which 
  unusually combines legislative and executive functions[citation needed].

I'm no expert on the relationship between Assembly and Government, but this statement seems to contradict what is said on the Assembly's website:

  http://www.assemblywales.org/abthome.htm

where the "The Assembly" section says:

  This section explains ... the difference between the National 
  Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government ..."

Perhaps somebody who knows the details could rewrite the start of this subsection.

Eebkent (talk) 11:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Should

MPs be tested for psychopathy and moral fortitude before being allowed to take office? Serious question for all of us. Its not only cream that floats... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.29.179 (talk) 22:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)