So, how many have actually handed in their letter? The figure is floating around the fifty-plus mark since the general election, and it’s climbing. That’s roughly the same number of people as your entire street losing their local PTA volunteers all at once. Imagine that chaos.
These aren’t national MPs you see on the telly; these are the folks who organise the summer fete and argue about where to put the dog waste bins. When they go, the machine doesn’t stop—but it does start to wheeze a little.