Are our MP’s standards of decency falling?

mcem do you ever accept that it’s actually none of your business?
It does matter what a poster says in the OP and I prefer to know if I am answering a genuinely concerned member of that Party, or an Opposition voter ‘having a go’, because if the former it makes the question an honest one.
To reiterate, some MPs of allpolitical parties act badly at
times and I really don’t think either Party acts better or worse than they used to.
Apparently, some MP’s have ignored the pairing rule before this, it isn’t setting a precedent.

Here we go again, a poster who recently left this forum always brought up the false allegation that I hate Corbyn ,I do not hate, I dislike, I distrust, this is not hate

It is the erosion of societal standards that is being mirrored in parliament.

To answer the OP's question, yes I do think standards are falling.

In the past people seemed to enter politics with the intention of at least trying to do the best for their constituents. Now it seems politicians are merely looking out for themselves and working for their own personal advancement and consider their constituents to be a nuisance to be tolerated.

I am not pointing the finger at any one party as I feel this applies to all parties, I accept there are some MPs who still try to work for their constituents but in my opinion they are few and far between.

Annie your dislike of JC is tangible. He has not,however much you hate him, broken Parliamentary codes of conduct or brought the house into disrepute.
Debate the policy not the person.

Questioning the party one is a member of is the very opposite of blind support

Good post, PECS

The problem, as I see it, Realgranddad is that Parliament operates on a system of 'honour' and conduct which has evolved over the past 200 years but is based on conduct appropriate to a 'gentleman'.

Under the veneer of politeness and good manners parliament in that time has been every bit as rumbustious as it can be now but underlying it all was a sense of honourable conduct which appears to be entirely lacking in our current parliament.

Remember the days of innocence when, for example, David Blunket resigned as Education Secretary because the SATs results weren't as good as he had promised they would be and he took responsibility for his department's failure to improve them?

Long gone...

Does it make any difference to the question what political persuasion the OP is? The facts remain that bad practice/ behaviour has happened and if it is within our own party or not it needs to be challenged. Blind support is not helpful to high standards and strong democracy. The pairing debacle happened before. Perhaps the chief whip had been to see the play This House about a similar situation mid 70s.

Unfair to judge the morals of one party unless one Is a member of the party, I criticise Corbyn more than May because I am a labour member and this is where my vote would go, well not whilst he is leader

lemongrove do you ever accept that, just sometimes, what is going on in Parliament and
specifically in the Conservative party, is simply wrong and immoral?
Nb - not inviting comparisons, just a yes or a no.

Are you a Conservative voter who is concerned, or a Labour voter I wonder?
All political parties have MP’s in them that sometimes fall short of good moral behaviour IMHO and this is certainly nothing new!
All it really means is that it’s harder to get away with poor
Behaviour now, because everything is in the spotlight.
On the pairing issue, it should probably be looked at and debated as to whether this has to be left a ‘moral’ issue or a legal one by the MP’s themselves.