Quick word for the parliament that is about to end: It has been a very good parliament, historically good. In fraught circumstances, under fierce populist attack, it held the government to account and prevented some catastrophic outcomes.
It's had independent minded MPs, many of them having to leave their party, stand by their principles, in the toughest possible conditions.
The government hated it. Many government MPs hated it. But they hated it because it was doing what it was supposed to do: Holding them to account.
People say it could only express what it didn't want and not what it did. That's correct. And in that it was perfectly representative of the public who elected it.
I'll miss it.
