Douglas Carswell gives the useless, futile, unaccountable and smug House of Commons a Z-rating

Douglas Carswell MP has marked nearly four years as an MP with an A to Z guide to Parliament on his blog.

It amounts to an extraordinary attack on the "futility" of the Commons.

Here are some of his conclusions:

A is for… Accountable, something many of our MPs are not…
C is for … Commons Committees, and all their spineless, executive-controlled futility….
D is for … Directives, the EU rules – issued despite Westminster – which really decide how Britain's governed…
H is for …. Hansard, that record of evasion and bluster…
P is for … Pocket, as in “the Commons is in the pocket of government”…
Q is for … Quango, the unaccountable institutions that really run Britain…
S is for … Smug, self-satisfied, self-regarding SW1…
U is for … Useless, as in the House of Commons…
V is for … Vanity, which stops many MPs 'fessing up to the fact they no longer count for much…
W is for … Whitehall, which is to Westminster what puppet-master is to puppet…
Z is for … The grade I give our broken Westminster system after four years there as an MP.