A chamber echoing in emptiness

What grabs the attention of the House of Commons? Not the historic, low key surrender to the EU of our freedom to regulate the City. How they must be sniggering in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris and Brussels. No, that somehow doesn't come up at PMQs.

Not the surrender of the Civil Aviation Authority's power to the EASA, as Richard North lucidly explains. Don't remember an MP challenging the PM over that.

What seems to float MPs' boat is talking about themselves. The Speaker. Expenses. Police raids. Supervisory bodies. How very important we are.

Funny how we don't seem to think much of them. We'd expect them to have opinions about the great issues.

Funny too how journos don't seem to have been falling over themselves to hack the voicemails of MPs.

Now why would that be?