Democracy's Vacation Announced

When people talk about the Uk’s "democratic deficit", why is this little fact always omitted?

MPs will have an additional four days of holiday in 2008 compared to this year, it has been announced.

They will take 91 days - or 18 working weeks - off, Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, has confirmed

Incredible, so, for almost a third of the year the UK has no legislature?