Holding MPs to account

Promises were made in 2009 when our present stock of Members of Parliament (MPs) asked people to put them in Parliament.  Almost all of them based their appeals on bringing development to their respective areas. But another general election is almost upon us, bringing the question of whether it is fair to judge MPs by the projects that came to their constituencies.

Almost all the MPs will say they entered the law-making House when the economy was hard hit by a recession, causing some projects to be deferred.  But even so, did they ever go back to the electorate to tell them about the situation before the campaign hotted up as it is beginning to now?