the staff all work for somebody, they work for the houses of parliament to micropro mejia state.rs and assistants, their employer is the mp, that is the person to answer to. they're not even included in here. so this is purely common —— commons law order stuff? exactly. each mp is an individual employer, they suddenly have hundreds of people brought into a totally different sphere from this, and it could be the tip of the iceberg. i remember when newsnight first ran that big story. i had people starting to contact me to tell their stories, they wanted to be anonymous but had things to say about the way they had been treated. what they would always say was that it was their boss who was doing it, who could they complain to? there was nowhere for them to go. all this goes back to the idea that mps should be independent and not to anyone from their electorate. mps have often never managed a small company before, which is essentially what an mp offices. they don't know about hr, they're often quite busy and stressed, so you can see how the situations develop. it's not very profession