anybody those things being suspended I'm
in Australia it's impossible for me to
vote so it's the way a person being
withdrawn its been suspended and I find
that interesting because there are lots
of MPs who take lots of weeks off during
parliamentary time and their whip isn't
suspended so I think what happened was
that maybe the powers that be in my
party thought I was going to use my time
in the jungle to talk about them and not
about the issues that concerned me and
interested me and I think it was a kind
of cautionary measure the eventual was
Andrew Mitchell who was as you will be
aware had to stand down over the pleb
gates issue asked me because I'm quite
rebellious on issues to do with Europe
and some other issues asked me what he
could do to keep me happy and I told him
that I would like a month away in
November because all of my seven and a
half years I've never taken a day away
in parliamentary time and other MPs take
between a lot of MPs context chewing for
in six weeks a year and he said that was
fine and that I could take the month
away I didn't tell him what for because
I couldn't because I was bound to
confidentiality but I did tell him what
I was going to do would be quite
controversial I find it quite
disappointing now that now the spotlight
came on to this that he has chosen and
particular after all the support I gave
him during his own particular troubles
recently but he's used to try and be
clever with words and say that he didn't
give me permission for the show
no he didn't give me permission for the
show but he did give me the permission
to have the month away there's been an
office set up in my hotel room and I've
already been back at work actually what
is overnight to you as soon as I got at
the jungle I was straight back to work
it's interesting actually because some
of the emails and the stuff that I've
seen while you've been overnight in the
UK states that I am not there for my
constituents well actually I worked
right until a second I left I worked all
the way through the summer recess I only
actually had four days away during the
summer when other MPs were abroad for
you know four and five weeks at a time I
worked all the way through the summer
my surgery's right up to the minute I
left and only one person has booked in
for next month's surgery so you know
it's quite interesting some of the flack
that's been thrown at me just I'm afraid
isn't true my office has been manned my
staff have been working hard and I'm
back at work already