Tory Proposal to Cut Number of MPs to Give Them Greater Number | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

Last Updated: February 14, 2016By

This Writer has just one point to make. With regard to my esteemed brother the Beast’s final comment: It’s far too late for that!

This isn’t the first time the Tories have tried something like this. I remember that back in the 1980s, under Thatcher, they carried out a similar piece of gerrymandering. They altered constituency boundaries in order to give them an electoral advantage. The result was that Tony Benn, the highly respected Labour MP for part of Bristol, was kicked out .

And, of course, there’s a fine piece of Tory hypocrisy about this. Remember the howls of rage when Tony Blair packed the House of Lords with ‘people’s peers’? Not democratic! they thundered. They compared him to Cromwell’s attack on parliament and his abolition of the House of Lords. One volume, written by an outraged High Tory, had a caricature of Blair on the cover as a punk, dressed in black leather and combats, for his assault on traditional British institutions.

Well, as Roy Hattersley I think once said, there wasn’t a British institution that Maggie didn’t handbag. To them, it’s only an affront to democracy and tradition when Labour do it.

The Tories’ machinations are another step towards setting up the oligarchical state they so desperately desire. A state run by the privileged rich, for the privileged rich, and with the proles firmly kept in their place, excluded from power by any means possible. And they’ve had good practice at it. They’ve been doing it for over thirty years.

The time’s well overdue this was stopped, before it leads the whole parliamentary system into disrepute.

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  1. Rupert Mitchell (@rupert_rrl) February 14, 2016 at 3:19 pm - Reply

    If ANYONE can explain that more clearly than you Mike I would like to shake their hands

  2. mohandeer February 15, 2016 at 5:57 pm - Reply

    The time’s well overdue this was stopped, before it leads the whole parliamentary system into disrepute.
    We’ve seen the way certain LP politicians have behaved and the disgrace that is the Tory Party. The British Parliament has very little “reputation” to salvage these days.

    • Mike Sivier February 16, 2016 at 12:21 pm - Reply

      Isn’t that what I wrote?

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