Here’s an interesting line from The Guardian, on the eve of the election: What the UK needs is MPs free to speak their mind.
Simon Jenkins writes:
The need is for more independent-minded MPs of all parties.
This Writer would say that fulfilling that need is the only duty of voters. You look at the manifestos of the big parties for a guide on their candidates – in your constituency – and you check the policies of the Independent candidates, and then you vote for the MP you believe is best for your constituency.
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That should have produced a Parliament filled with variety; MPs from all constituencies sent to Parliament in order to represent the needs of those constituencies.
Instead, it seems, voters have been duped into voting against their best interests and in the interests of the political parties instead. So
This Thursday it appears that party will win.
But
voters, at least in marginal seats, should select their MPs as individuals, not loyal party members. They should judge them for intelligence, radicalism and independence – qualities likely to be in very short supply.
How does one decide in which seats voters should select their MPs as individuals and not “loyal party members”? Shouldn’t all MPs be selected for intelligence, radicalism and independence – and loyalty to their constituents?
The Guardian article’s premise is that there will be very little decent opposition to a Labour government with an overwhelming majority, as seems the most likely result on Friday morning, because of the perceived concentration on party rather than person.
Well, This Writer won’t accept any blame for that. I have supported principled Independents and bright individuals among the parties. If the electorate allows itself to be led by the nose to vote against its own interests yet again, it only has itself to blame.
The big opportunity to vote in a set of MPs who can think and speak for themselves is now. If we let it pass us by, we will be the victims of our own negligence.
Source: Labour to win, Tories to lose: but what Britain really needs is MPs free to speak their mind
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What the UK needs is MPs free to speak their mind
Here’s an interesting line from The Guardian, on the eve of the election: What the UK needs is MPs free to speak their mind.
Simon Jenkins writes:
This Writer would say that fulfilling that need is the only duty of voters. You look at the manifestos of the big parties for a guide on their candidates – in your constituency – and you check the policies of the Independent candidates, and then you vote for the MP you believe is best for your constituency.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
That should have produced a Parliament filled with variety; MPs from all constituencies sent to Parliament in order to represent the needs of those constituencies.
Instead, it seems, voters have been duped into voting against their best interests and in the interests of the political parties instead. So
But
How does one decide in which seats voters should select their MPs as individuals and not “loyal party members”? Shouldn’t all MPs be selected for intelligence, radicalism and independence – and loyalty to their constituents?
The Guardian article’s premise is that there will be very little decent opposition to a Labour government with an overwhelming majority, as seems the most likely result on Friday morning, because of the perceived concentration on party rather than person.
Well, This Writer won’t accept any blame for that. I have supported principled Independents and bright individuals among the parties. If the electorate allows itself to be led by the nose to vote against its own interests yet again, it only has itself to blame.
The big opportunity to vote in a set of MPs who can think and speak for themselves is now. If we let it pass us by, we will be the victims of our own negligence.
Source: Labour to win, Tories to lose: but what Britain really needs is MPs free to speak their mind
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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