Hillman avenger wrote:It's interesting to see R24s , when it suits, tell us that it's only about manifestos and MPs following the whip. A system which he has told us several times is contrary to democracy.
And as in the 2015 election all three major parties supported the EU in their manifestos, you have to ask whether the activities of the Tory eurosceptics since then had any legitimacy.
And if you like the idea of MPs putting party policy before constituency preferences, you will love Proportional Representation as it hands power to the parties to herd MPs all the time.
Yeah it absolutely is contrary to proper democracy , and I told your chum that when I explained the way it works .
He and you give off point examples because you're simply not having it, but what I said stands ,and that is that M.P's are entitled and expected to vote for the manifesto in preference to the wishes of their constituents.
I didn't say that only things in the manifesto can be legislated , and I certainly didn't say that M.P's can't campaign against it or refuse to support it, just that they're entitled to give it preference over local wishes.
What I certainly didn't say is that a manifesto commitment stands if defeated in a referrendum called by Parliament. I merely clarified the workings of the system as it exists, which is not really a reason to try and re argue an issue which the people have spoken upon.
I didn't intend to continue this perpetual argument about Brexit because the matter is settled.
