The EU debate rumbles on in Westminster with various colleagues declaring for Remain or Leave as the days pass. It's all very courteous – not at all the divisive issue that the media would have us believe, although the private banter between old political warriors who have been on opposing sides of the debate since the Maastricht days can be eye-wateringly pointed. I am always fascinated to read these reports of party splits and rebellions, usually written by a journalist who has taken a single cheesed-off MP out for a good lunch and turned their rebellious mutterings into a good story.

I took a decision a few years ago to refrain from opinionated chats with the media, apart from our own local Gazette & Herald team of course, as my job is not to commentate on the workings of my colleagues but to get on and deliver for my constituents and for rail passengers across the country.

I have been putting in the railway miles in pursuit of the latter aim recently, opening a new station in Nuneaton and train crew rooms in Leicester and having the honour of formally announcing to Parliament that the new Crossrail line will be known as the Elizabeth line when it opens in 2018, to commemorate our sovereign's 64 years on the throne.

This Friday I will be closer to home, officially 'opening' the new footbridge at Pewsey station – a good local indicator of the government's record investment in rail along with the new hybrid trains that will start running on this route in 2018 and one that helps me fulfil my pledge to the people I represent that I will improve our local train services.

I will also be helping in my local village to Clean For the Queen – a chance as we approach Her Majesty's 90th birthday for us to de-litter our local footpaths and roads. This has been described in the high brow left wing press (publications that I quite often enjoy if I ignore the mad opinion pieces written by joyless, reality-ignoring socialists) as 'Tory Britain at its Worst' with one writer suggesting that they would rather swim through sewage than participate.

How very sad that taking collective action to spruce up our streets, using our national pride in our monarch as a rallying cry, is described in this way and how odd that the tribe would see something so benign as so divisive.