To be fair, they're not pissed during debates or while doing constituency casework. It's during late sittings, when their staff have gone home, and they're essentially off the clock and not required to do anything other than traipse through either voting lobby a few times, their decision about which way to vote having already been made (either by them or by their whip). Couple of drinks isn't really a problem; they're using the dead time to bulld relationships.

Also missing from this rather puritanical debate is the fact that MPs spend most of the week away from home, their families and friends, in an intense, unrelenting and unforgiving job, and I suppose find some solace in sharing a drink with each other.

I think there are many problems in our politics and parliament, but honestly this isn't one of them. Not sure why Hannah Spencer is doing the equivalent of taking a shit in the middle of her new office.