You should actually watch parliamentary debates sometime. For the most part they are completely boring and debates in name only. It's rare for parliaments to h

You should actually watch parliamentary debates sometime. For the most part they are completely boring and debates in name only. It's rare for parliaments to have actual passionate debates. That usually only happens on controversial and dividing issues, where it's worth it to make a stand to appeal to voters or where public support might help. Most of the time these debates are just a formality to pass through a compromise everyone already has agreed to pass through beforehand. Accordingly you'll see that parliamentary debates and even votes are attented often only by a small number of representatives, not because they're not doing they're job it's because they've already done theirs at that point and have better things to do.