So fuel protesters hit London again today to campaign against rising fuel prices. It's a bit like King Canute repelling the rising waves. If you look at my Q&A on fuel prices elesewhere on the site you will see - The Government has only increased duty rates three times since 2000. We’ve either cut or frozen fuel duty 11 times since 1999. We deferred the April rise in this year’s budget too, in recognition of the pressure people were under.

Had we continued the Tories’ policy of the fuel duty escalator, petrol would be 34p higher at the pump today.

So the rise to £1.31 a litre for diesel is not suddenly due to duty - but world oil prices. These people must know this and realise there is nothing a single government can do to change that situation. Or do they. Surely they are not that ignorant of the basic facts of economic globalisation.

So one of my MP colleagues is in the papers today for telling a constituent to stick his vote.

There seems a great deal of sympathy in the tea rooms. I have only ever told one constituent during a racist rant that I would actually prefer him not to vote for me if they were the views he wanted me to represent. I couldn't and wouldn't and he should find a fascist who would.

As MPs for 70,000 people we can't represent all the divergent views in our constituencies that is obvious. So we need to stand up for what we believe is right and tell people straight. The electorate tell us they prefer MPs to stand up for their principles - but it seems only as long as they are the principles that they share!

It is also important that we are honest about what we can or can't do to help. We all live in fear of constituents running off the paper saying we refuse to help - when actually gently suggesting that a 20 year battle with some agency is probably in their best interest. Many of the people who come to see me with problems do not need the help of an MP but many other agencies - debt, mental health etc. Perhaps we would do everybody a favour if we were brave enough to say I am the wrong person or I don't agree with you. What do you think?

For a long time I have been able to ignore odious and pathetic Tories both down here and in Loughborough but they have become so arrogant and self satisfied that their true colours are starting to show again.

The Tories believe they have a right to govern and that the last 11 years have been a brief mistake of the British people. At each election disaster they never quite understood why we hate them so much.

The trouble is now they are exactly the same people but unfortunately Cameron has realised that people hated the Tories and has therefore spent 2 years pretending they are something else. I can tell you when you see them up close they are still mostly nasty right wing Tories up close and their plans are pure Thatcher. But cleverly they have realised that if they shut up for a couple of years and say nothing they just might get their hands back on the keys to No10. I am not sure what is more frightening - the prospects of it happening or otherwise sensible people thinking they might be different this time. Let this be an early warning that I told you so. The Tories are nasty right wingers. They have not changed and don't come running to me to say why didn't we warn you!

They peddle lies and untruths locally and have returned to the pretty nasty bunch I knew in the 80s-90s.

Their strategy of saying nothing about any of their plans cannot carry them all the way to the election. Their plans don't add up and promises made to anybody who will fall for them are unravelling as they contradict each other. Time to focus on them and the disaster they will inflict on Britain.

It was a bit full on today - but mainly personal. I really do try to keep Sunday free from work. I don't have a Sunday newspaper and the world is a better place for it. They are full of journalistic lies anyway so you rarely learn anything you can't pick up on the BBC news website.

It was pick up children, church (leading the Rocks), pick up from children party, church BBQ, clear the drains, put up pictures, draw raffle prizes at Quorn and then watch the Football. If you don't care who wins football is hard work... but this was ok and it was great to share with my 9 year old son.

I day without the children as they were without grandparents but I had committed to a rugby league game at Leeds months ago for charity. I was a little worried that I wasn't 100%sure of positional play. So I played on the wing out of the way! But is soon discovered there is no hiding in League and I put more tackles in today than an entire rugby union career. They weren't very good but at least I tried! I thought I was away in the first quarter with an early interception with 70m to go but I was grateful the ref spotted the 'knock-on'. I got on the score sheet at the end when I converted our 3rd try from 35m out. I don' think I have converted a try in union so this will remain a safe personal record. Still a great day out and a worthwhile cause again.

Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full analysis of the PM one year into office but I have had to put up with a lot of drivel so far today in our wonderful media!

I have known Gordon for a few years and know him to be a warm personal man with strong convictions and a heart for social justice. I recognise this is not the Gordon that people see on the telly as he is not a natural 'performer'. But if we wanted a performer you can get actors at any time. From my point of view I am more disappointed that politics will be replaced with a personality contest if we carry on like this. That is sad. But the next election may well be decided by who people 'like' the most. I will point out the plans of the Tories at the next election and ours. If people go for personality and end up with a right wing Tory party headed by the smiling David Cameron pretending to be all things to all people it will be the poorest who get stuffed. I just hope the electorate don't sleepwalk into the Tory trap.

The Commons is a strange place to predict. I had a debate scheduled today for 6pm about the future of Loughborough station. There was a 1 line whip business - in other words there was not likely to be vote so a number of MPs take the opportunity to go back their constituencies. I did not but did undertake a prior engagement in London. I decided that it would be safest to be back an hour before pm - just in case. Unfortunately the Business of the Commons finished even earlier at 4.18pm. I have never known the Commons to finish so early and so when I arrived back at 4.31 in plenty of time for a 6pm debate the Commons had formally finished & under the rules there it must stay. There are times when you despair of our arcane rules and ways of working and this was one of them!

I am not sure how many column inches have been devoted to this topic - but I guess we are likely to see more again this week following the publication of this report. I think it makes some good points but doesn't come to all the right conclusions. It smashes some media myths and shows how most of our allowances are similar to the rest of the public and private sector - which I suspect will NOT be reported.

I chaired a meeting today about the morality of climate change. Too often in this place we spend time looking at detail. so it was good to get a wider perspective and understand that it IS a moral issue too.

We had a lively debate as a climate change 'Denier' came along. The debate was better for it too!

I tend to agree with this article but I feared asking the question! Why can't we have a serious debate abuot wellbeing and why we are generally so miserbale despite having everything we dreamed of? I think there are some serious points to be made about why consumerism amd the markets will always fail to satisfy us.