| Topic: | Re:Huw Burford-Taylor (2) | |
| Posted by: | Richard Cathcart | |
| Date/Time: | 17/09/19 13:51:00 |
| "... you vote for an MP's party manifesto as much as you do the MP in question." Really? All of it, you know, every dot and comma? Even including the bits they may not be so keen on? Have you ever met anyone who's read all the different party manifestos before making his/her choice? Come to that, do you? And what happens if the governing party changes a manifesto commitment mid-term eg announcing an end to austerity and an increase in public spending? Or what if an agreed party manifesto pledge turns out to have a deleterious and unpopular consequence in a given MP's constituency eg polics cuts meaning a local station is shut, or approval of a new airport runway leading to increased noise/pollution etc? Should the sitting MP's all be compelled to resign the whip in such circumstances? We'd face bye-elections every month in half the constituencies up and down the country were that the case. I am a Remainer like yourself and given the opportunity to vote again, I'd still choose Remain. But I cannot honestly accept that any new Government could blithely ignore the Referendum completely and just annul it. Neither can I accept any given Party pledging to do so when they know they will never get the opportunity, and is only doing so in the hope that we're all too stupid to appreciate what they're up to - cynically flaunting their "Remain" credentials in order to scoop up a few extra votes. Quite honestly, the Lib Dems would be much better off pledging to abolish student tuition fees or something... |