Has there ever been another time in living memory when politicians have been so spectacularly out of touch with public sentiment - or so sinisterly cavalier about overriding the democratic wishes of the people, than what we have now?
At the 2016 EU referendum; a total of 17.4million — the
largest voting bloc in British electoral history — voted for a clean exit from
the EU.
Locally in Tameside, the electorate also voted
overwhelmingly to leave the EU and take back control from Brussels. A total of
61.6% (67,829) voted in favour of leaving the union, with just 38.9% (43,118)
opting to stay in.
Ironically, throughout the United Kingdom last year, MPs
celebrated the 100th anniversary of women and working class men
getting the vote. This year, they are using their privileged political
positions to overthrow something that the majority of British people voted
for.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Whether it’s Europhile Tories or Labour remainers, SNP and
Lib Dem MPs who have long loathed the idea of Brexit, or the Green’s, we are
now faced with an army of parliamentarians who, pursuing their own agendas, plan
to knock down any deal so they can set about knocking down Brexit!
Despite their ‘weasel words’ it has become quite clear just
what our parliament really thinks of democracy and their attitude to carrying
out the wishes of the majority has been spectacularly exposed by their reaction
to the vote for British independence.
The current problem is that with almost one-fifth of our politicians
being lawyers and the majority of the rest being career politicians, there are
clear conflicts of interest which come to the forefront as they cleverly
exploit any given situation to further their own political benefits.
We should all now remind our 3 local MP’s (Jonathan
Reynolds, Angela Rayner and Andrew Gwynne) who all voted to remain in the EU,
that their function first and foremost is to represent our interests and
concerns in the House of Commons. If they do not vote to implement the will of
the majority, then I fear that the anger that will be unleashed could be
calamitous for parliamentary democracy.
It is a
shaming situation in which this formerly great country finds itself and I have
little doubt we have now become a laughing stock across Europe and the rest of
the world.
If we don't leave at the end of March there should be a general election.The most effective political campaigner in the UK today is farage and I can imagine a large percentage of the 17 million who voted to leave will be voting for is party.This could be,potentially, a break up of the old political order.
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