WERE our Members of Parliament to be invited to organise the proverbial party in a brewery they would first need to debate for hours in the chamber, engage in numerous divisions in the lobby, just to decide how to become suitably inebriated in a manner considered to be politically correct.

This scenario is akin to the childish attitude portrayed by pro-European MPs who have put down amendments covering 142 pages opposing a bill consisting of 137 words which triggers Article 50, instigating our divorce from the European Union desired by the will of the people.

No wonder the public hold their MPs in contempt. Outside of Parliament most of them would be unemployable, with one exception - that of being able to inflate balloons with hot air.

Productivity levels would soar.

Peter Rickaby, West Park, Selby