DMcG whilst I agree that in many respects knowing the way your MP voted is important my main reason for going for secret votes is so that the MP can vote the way his concious dictates and not because the party boss want him to vote thereby taking power away from the party and giving it to the MP. Personally I'd love to get rid of political parties and just have independents elected but I can't see anyway in which it would work as political groupings would naturally form.