MPs are rarely representative of constituencies. (From York Press)
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MPs are rarely representative of constituencies.
7:57pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
By George Appleby »
Candidates for the election in York are arguing in the Press about who is home grown and who isn’t.
MPs are rarely representative of constituencies. Independent MPs and Councillors stand alone against parties who always have the final say on where our money is spent. I have nothing against political parties; they bring out people like Jack Archer and Albert Cowen in Holgate and others in parliament.
Tories and Labour have shared exclusive power since the war through regular boom and busts and think it is their God given right. Our essential utilities for life; water, electricity, gas and fuel were broken up and put onto the ‘market’ along with lucrative directorships for the ministers who did it. Since then much of it has passed into foreign hands like our Manufacturing base, now decimated.
That’s why the majority of active votes, cast against the winning party, are wasted, and the overall majority are unused because these voters see nothing in it for them. Both parties depend on absentees, so I hope they turn up and let them live with the number of seats their actual votes deserve.
It matters much more that we break the two fold strangle hold which brought us to our present sad state, and not to be diverted from it. They have the cheek to tell us their votes are the only ones that count. We know that only too well.
A system based on Single Transferable Votes that count is the only way, and there has never been a better time for it to be won for us.
No watered down version offered by Gordon Brown under sufferance will achieve this. Take it or leave it are his options. David Cameron will not have it at any price. It would cost him and his backers far too much.
