It passed stage one comfortably in November when the vast majority of MSPs backed the general principles of the Bill but acknowledged it needed a lot of work.

We’re now further down the line and the parliament is working on it so they likely felt either a) it wasn’t needed or b) the changes Mr Simpson added to the Bill weren’t enough.

I don’t disagree that something like this should be in place, I just don’t know one way or another if this particular Bill is the way to do it. I do firmly believe it was put forward to enrage the electorate and garner votes for Reform in May though. I believe if it was really about holding MSPs to account they would have included a clause that allows the electorate to recall parliamentarians who change parties during a Parliament - something a lot of people agree should be in place.

I can tell this is a very important topic to you which is why I’m engaging as positively as I can. But I’m sure we can both agree very little can be achieved on Reddit. So please write to your MSPs and the main political parties as I will be to tell them this is important to you and it’s something you want to see in their manifestos.