Well, now it is the turn of Labour's Joan Humble, MP for Blackpool North & Fleetwood (which becomes Blackpool North and Cleveleys) to stand down at the forthcoming general election.
Joan Humble told her local paper, Fleetwood Weekly News;
"I have reached this decision after careful thought. My husband Paul is very close to retirement and we naturally wish to spend more time together in retirement. I would also like to devote much more time to my parents, who live in Yorkshire and have turned eighty."
Joan Humble has been in politics for twenty five years as a county councillor and then as an MP since 1997.
I stand by the fact though that many Labour MPs are jumping before being pushed and to get their payout before their P45 instead.
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"You have to question their loyalty to constituents and the Labour Party"
25 years as county councillor, 13 years as MP - that's 38 years.
I think she's very loyal.
I agree her record is loyal, but to tell your local constituency party and your constituents that I am off with 68 days to the election is hardly loyal to the overall cause.
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