Monday, 24 October 2011

Oh, to live in a democracy

One issue I feel strongly about is the EU.  So today's debate in the commons on having a referendum on the EU is of great interest to me.

Whether you are for or against the EU is beside the point.  99.5% of you can lobby your MP and make your views known, and you never know it might even make the tiniest bit of a difference to the outcome.

On the other hand the good burghers of Buckingham are disenfranchised. We can lobby our MP as much as we like and, unless there is a tied result, the person elected to  represent our interests doesn't even get to vote.

2 comments:

  1. I wonder whose fault that was .

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  2. Not mine.I actively campaigned for UKIP to get him out. We slashed his majority and reduced his vote to less than 50% at the election.

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