Well there's another Conservative back bench (not Government) Bill today in the UK House of Commons for a referendum on continued membership of the EU. Some wabbit will recall the last one back in October 2011 which the Government ordered it's MPs to vote against. Today Conservative MPs are ordered to vote for the Bill so congrats to UKIP on that.
As some of you may recall back in 2011 I wrote to my MP Ms S- and urged her to ignore the whips (Party orders) and support the Bill.
Dear L-,
I do hope that you will ignore any whip orders next Monday on the EU referendum debate and voice the rights of the people to a say in this for the first time since 1974... when I was too young to vote and it was only a 'common market' anyway. With fiscal union they are they threatening 2/3 rds of Europe with 'troika dictatorship'... this will end with nationalist rebellions and wars. The EU have defrauded voters time and again already... a 'no' is never a NO! The process is by bypassed or repeated.
I know that Mondays vote is not binding on the Government but unless our Party stands up for our country we may as well give up now. I shall be watching carefully.
Regards
S
Well sadly the Honourable Lady ignored my advice and didn't reply for some time after and then with an answer and reasoning that literally beggars belief. I quote "The motion puts forward three options for a referendum – in / out / renegotiate. This is not workable. Having 3 options creates an impossible outcome when the referendum could be won by one of the options attracting only 34% of the vote. I don’t think that we should stay in or get out of Europe on the basis of 34% of the vote. If the result was “renegotiate” which I would suspect would be the outcome – “renegotiate what?” Everyone would have different views." Well what have we got now? Cameron proposes to renegotiate... “renegotiate what?” no longer seems to concern her. I was even more surprised to see that the same Honourable Lady is a actually of co-sponsor of today's back bench Bill and will therefore presumably be voting for it this time.
Perhaps she just does as the whips say - representing the views of your constituents is after all such a chore and doesn't help getting you a Government job. Or perhaps it's the fact that at the last local elections only UKIP Councillor were elected in the constituency area. Whatever it is it's typical of the shall self interested hypocrisy of so many of our elected 'representatives' today. Come 2015 this Lady is going and I will do whatever I can to aid in her departure.
People will know that for me the EU is a bit of a bugbear but no doubt you will all have similar issues that for you seem particularly pressing. You want them to represent you? Well sitting around hoping they will is sometimes not sufficient. Write to them and tell them what you want and if they don't damn well do kick up a fuss and cause hell for them! I am have clearly caught out my MP in a hypocritical about turn and I hope it may prove part of her downfall. Democracy requires that people are active and vigilant of their rights and I urge others to exercise similar vigilance with issues that concern them and their own 'representatives'.
As some of you may recall back in 2011 I wrote to my MP Ms S- and urged her to ignore the whips (Party orders) and support the Bill.
Dear L-,
I do hope that you will ignore any whip orders next Monday on the EU referendum debate and voice the rights of the people to a say in this for the first time since 1974... when I was too young to vote and it was only a 'common market' anyway. With fiscal union they are they threatening 2/3 rds of Europe with 'troika dictatorship'... this will end with nationalist rebellions and wars. The EU have defrauded voters time and again already... a 'no' is never a NO! The process is by bypassed or repeated.
I know that Mondays vote is not binding on the Government but unless our Party stands up for our country we may as well give up now. I shall be watching carefully.
Regards
S
Well sadly the Honourable Lady ignored my advice and didn't reply for some time after and then with an answer and reasoning that literally beggars belief. I quote "The motion puts forward three options for a referendum – in / out / renegotiate. This is not workable. Having 3 options creates an impossible outcome when the referendum could be won by one of the options attracting only 34% of the vote. I don’t think that we should stay in or get out of Europe on the basis of 34% of the vote. If the result was “renegotiate” which I would suspect would be the outcome – “renegotiate what?” Everyone would have different views." Well what have we got now? Cameron proposes to renegotiate... “renegotiate what?” no longer seems to concern her. I was even more surprised to see that the same Honourable Lady is a actually of co-sponsor of today's back bench Bill and will therefore presumably be voting for it this time.
Perhaps she just does as the whips say - representing the views of your constituents is after all such a chore and doesn't help getting you a Government job. Or perhaps it's the fact that at the last local elections only UKIP Councillor were elected in the constituency area. Whatever it is it's typical of the shall self interested hypocrisy of so many of our elected 'representatives' today. Come 2015 this Lady is going and I will do whatever I can to aid in her departure.
People will know that for me the EU is a bit of a bugbear but no doubt you will all have similar issues that for you seem particularly pressing. You want them to represent you? Well sitting around hoping they will is sometimes not sufficient. Write to them and tell them what you want and if they don't damn well do kick up a fuss and cause hell for them! I am have clearly caught out my MP in a hypocritical about turn and I hope it may prove part of her downfall. Democracy requires that people are active and vigilant of their rights and I urge others to exercise similar vigilance with issues that concern them and their own 'representatives'.
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