With the clock ticking for Brexit, should MPs abandon holidays?

THE outburst by MPs who had planned skiing trips during the February recess, but have been asked to carry on working until they’ve sorted out Brexit (Mail), was only to be expected. It was MPs who were found fiddling their expenses despite being paid £77,000 a year and retiring with a gold-plated pension. These are the people who behave like toddlers in the Commons when they should be trying to bring sense and logic to these issues. When you look at this self-serving, ill-mannered, infantile bunch of moneygrabbers, is it any wonder the public has little respect for Parliament?

T. EDWARDS, Ockham, Surrey. MPs who are claiming for childcare during the cancelled recess to be paid from the public purse should be made

to work in the real world, where all you receive is your salary, not a second property or perks paid for by taxpayers. JOHN KNOCK, Basildon, Essex.

MPs love heading off to faraway places. Shame they keep finding their way back.

J. COLBERT, Walsall, W. Mids. ThERE is not enough time to pass the laws required for Brexit before March. Perhaps if MPs spent more than 150 days in Parliament they could get things done. Why don’t they just do what they are paid for?

TERRY AUSTIN, Totnes, Devon.

MEMBERS of Her Majesty’s Services don’t complain if they have to forgo holidays when the country requires them to do their duty.

P. J. L. SIMPSON, Weymouth. I hAVE little sympathy with MPs losing their holiday. They are the ones who have talked themselves into this mess.

C. R. BEAN, Warrington.

MPs complaining about having to work during their February recess tells us all we need to know about their commitment to carrying out their duties for their country. What a selfish, self-indulgent bunch.

A. GLENISTER, Bushey, Herts. ThE gall of MPs wanting to claim for cancelled holidays. have they not learned from the expenses scandal?

S. TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks.