Most of us would agree that it's been a pretty tumultuous week as far as politics goes, but there was further eerie silence from the Watford area's MPs.

In the wake of a senior civil servant resigning and an avalanche of resignations and declarations that MPs had lost confidence in the Prime Minister, Dean Russell and Gagan Mohindra did not respond to the Watford Observer's requests for their views.

Neither did Hertsmere MP and former Conservative party chairman Oliver Dowden, but he had resigned on June 24 after the Wakefield and Tiverton by-election defeats, making it clear "somebody must take responsibility".

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This was in keeping with the trend over recent months.

Whatever your politics, a misjudgement, lie or both from Downing Street, followed by a U-turn and then revelations of more lies has come to seem a repeated cycle over the past few months.

Each time this has been greeted by silence from most MPs, with repeated requests for comment from this paper only occasionally yielding a response.

Former Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who started the wave of resignations, said that not to do something was an active decision. Not to say anything is also an active decision.

MPs owe their voters explanations of where they stand on the big issues. Even something people might disagree with is better than what many might suspect - that their MP was hoping a big problem would just go away.