Monday 20 October 2014

Total Recall

Anyone who secured a recall election ought to be required to pay for it. Much better to have no such provision in the first place.

We most certainly do not need recall elections. Those would be nothing but a charter for nuisance. Mostly by Liberal Democrat activists, and these days possibly also UKIP and the SNP.

Although not exclusively so.

Think of the MPs who voted against DRIP. Think of the MPs who voted against war in Libya, and against the recent bombing of Iraq.

Party machines, quite possibly by means of each other, would mobilise to recall MPs like that. Having to pay for the elections would be no deterrent there.

We must not go down this road.

2 comments:

  1. You can't trust Labour with the NHS.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2800815/patients-mass-exodus-england-labour-blocks-international-inquiry-crisis-hit-welsh-nhs-thousands-cross-border-life-saving-treatment.html

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    1. No one believes a word of that.

      As much as anything else, appearing in the Mail does not in itself affect the vote of anyone, or at least who might ever have considered voting Labour.

      That paper wanted it to be taken by the BBC. It hasn't been. It won't be.

      Labour wins on the NHS simply by existing at all, simply by being the Labour Party. Likewise, the Tories lose on the NHS simply by existing at all, simply by being the Tories.

      Them's the rules. Always have been. Always will be.

      On topic, please.

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