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Voters to be given power to kick out MP's
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 5 Jun 2014 08:32 |
It was announced in The Queens Speech to Parliament yesterday, that the government is to bring in legislation before the next general election to give voters the power to kick out their MP if they were found to be involved in serious misconduct. |
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Kense | Report | 5 Jun 2014 08:48 |
There needs to be some means of limiting those petitions to those MPs who have actually seriously misbehaved, otherwise an Opposition could organise petitions in marginal constituencies at will. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 5 Jun 2014 09:02 |
KenSE - I agree with your comment that there needs to be some means of limiting these petitions to MP's who have actually seriously misbehaved. However I do not agree that it should be a committee of MP's that judge their colleagues, it should be a totally independent body that decides. |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 5 Jun 2014 09:17 |
It depends upon what is deemed to be "serious misconduct" surely. |
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Budgie Rustler | Report | 5 Jun 2014 10:57 |
Could open the door to "Witch Hunts" methinks. (finger pointing, mud slinging, etc) |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 5 Jun 2014 12:43 |
eRRolSheep - I have no doubts that there will be quite a lot of pre-election promises, from the 1st class citizens who hope to govern us, as they attempt to con the 2nd class citizens known as the electorate ;-) |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 5 Jun 2014 18:37 |
Sounds like another way of conning the tax payer. Nice little 'quango', ie another grossly overpaid 'job for the boys,' to sort through the petitions, before handing on a 'token' few (of people the party doesn't like anyway) to MP's for discussion - just to prove it works. :-( |
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