Question time tonight - rowdy one?
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I think we need more independent MPs. The party whip system means that MPs largely vote in order to advance their careers rather than to advance the interests of their constituents.
My MP has never voted against the government, even when voting for legislation that directly damaged his constituency, for example by closing our hospitals. Hazel Blears famously voted for the same legislation then turned up at a protest against the legislation to get her photo in the local paper.
My MP's happy. His party loyalty was rewarded by a ministerial post. His constituents are dropping like flies because it now takes up to an hour and a half to get to the nearest hospital if you have a heart attack.
Independents, who are loyal to their constituents because they don't have a party pulling their strings are a good thing. Megalomaniacs who form their own, often extremist, parties in an effort to lead we untermenschen in a glorious revolution are a very bad thing indeed.
Think of the people who have done this:-
Tommy Sheridan - Solidarity - Permatanned Marxist
Colin Fox - Scottish Socialist Party - 1970s style 'industrial' Marxist
Arthur Scargill - Socialist Labour Party - Stalinist
Nick Griffin - BNP - National Socialist
Der Fuhrer - NAZI - National Socialist
Gorgeous George - Respect - Trotskyist
Do we really want folks like that representing us in Parliament?
My MP has never voted against the government, even when voting for legislation that directly damaged his constituency, for example by closing our hospitals. Hazel Blears famously voted for the same legislation then turned up at a protest against the legislation to get her photo in the local paper.
My MP's happy. His party loyalty was rewarded by a ministerial post. His constituents are dropping like flies because it now takes up to an hour and a half to get to the nearest hospital if you have a heart attack.
Independents, who are loyal to their constituents because they don't have a party pulling their strings are a good thing. Megalomaniacs who form their own, often extremist, parties in an effort to lead we untermenschen in a glorious revolution are a very bad thing indeed.
Think of the people who have done this:-
Tommy Sheridan - Solidarity - Permatanned Marxist
Colin Fox - Scottish Socialist Party - 1970s style 'industrial' Marxist
Arthur Scargill - Socialist Labour Party - Stalinist
Nick Griffin - BNP - National Socialist
Der Fuhrer - NAZI - National Socialist
Gorgeous George - Respect - Trotskyist
Do we really want folks like that representing us in Parliament?
Yes... it was all so gentlemanly, conducted with decorum. Old Blair still got it in the neck over the Chilcot Inquiry.... but it was all a bit of a yawn really. Even GG was mucho decorum... even had a necktie around his Marxist neck... Still... its a pity someone didn't have a go about old Broone, but no doubt that will happen when the Auld Loon announces the Gen Election date... 
I was flicking channels between ITV 1 'Road Warriors' the documentry about Loggies Drivers in Helmand... and BBC 1 'QT' and BBC 2 'Newsnight' about the expenses scandal... so did not catch all of 'QT'..
I was flicking channels between ITV 1 'Road Warriors' the documentry about Loggies Drivers in Helmand... and BBC 1 'QT' and BBC 2 'Newsnight' about the expenses scandal... so did not catch all of 'QT'..
Sorry but the man is an opportunist, a parasite. I know that Westminster is full of the 'uckers, as has been recently highlighted, it's just that he takes the exploitation of the ignorant voters to the extreme. A man in constant look-out for a cause to feed off. He always has, from his early days in the Hibs clubs (not the football team) of Dundee to his present constituency.
This is a necessary flaw in our democracy, which is not a true democracy but a representative democracy. In a true democracy everybody gets a shot at being in charge. An impracticable ideal on a national level so we have what we have.
I think it was Churchill who summed it up quite well with a statement along the lines of Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
This is a necessary flaw in our democracy, which is not a true democracy but a representative democracy. In a true democracy everybody gets a shot at being in charge. An impracticable ideal on a national level so we have what we have.
I think it was Churchill who summed it up quite well with a statement along the lines of Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
uncle_vanya said:
Yes... it was all so gentlemanly, conducted with decorum. Old Blair still got it in the neck over the Chilcot Inquiry.... but it was all a bit of a yawn really. Even GG was mucho decorum... even had a necktie around his Marxist neck... Still... its a pity someone didn't have a go about old Broone, but no doubt that will happen when the Auld Loon announces the Gen Election date...
I was flicking channels between ITV 1 'Road Warriors' the documentry about Loggies Drivers in Helmand... and BBC 1 'QT' and BBC 2 'Newsnight' about the expenses scandal... so did not catch all of 'QT'..
I was flicking channels between ITV 1 'Road Warriors' the documentry about Loggies Drivers in Helmand... and BBC 1 'QT' and BBC 2 'Newsnight' about the expenses scandal... so did not catch all of 'QT'..
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