We need more like him.

[ban-all-sheds]

Some colleagues are going to vote for a Brexit that they know will harm their communities and our country because they’re scared of telling voters the truth or because they see it as their responsibility to simply be amplifiers for what their voters are saying on the doorsteps.

This isn’t good enough. I would rather tell it how it is and risk losing my job, than stay silent and risk my constituents losing theirs.
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We are there to represent the voices of our constituents, but we are also there to be custodians and guardians of their livelihoods and our national interest.

Wes Streeting, MP for Ilford North

 

[Newboy]

So presumably if the leave/remain vote had resulted in a majority to stay and subsequently MP's decided that they believed it would be better to leave you would support that position?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If they really believed that, yes, but then the chances are that I would have wanted to leave.

I'm not sure what part of MPs doing what they believe is in people's best interests rather than just slavishly doing what people tell them to do is so hard for you to accept.

 

[EFLImpudence]

So presumably if the leave/remain vote had resulted in a majority to stay and subsequently MP's decided that they believed it would be better to leave you would support that position.

The fact is that most MPs believe it would be better to remain, so presumably you are happy that most of them are promoting what they believe will be detrimental to the country.

You must also think that that boat should have been named Boaty McBoatface.

Let's have a referendum for abolishing all forms of tax.

 

[Newboy]

Well unless you're a clairvoyant you have no idea what I think.

What I find bemusing is that you (and BAS) seem to like democracy but only if it produces the 'right' result.

 

[Newboy]

The fact is that most MPs believe it would be better to remain

And your source for this is?

 

[EFLImpudence]

No, I have always said democracy is a daft idea - plus you are only normally allowed to vote when it makes no real difference to those who are really in charge.
The referendum was a mistake.

As for the source:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35616946

 

[EFLImpudence]

Well unless you're a clairvoyant you have no idea what I think.

I was assuming you thought what you wrote.

 

[Mottie]

So if it was left to the MP's, would they go against the wishes of the majority of their constituents that could vote them out of a job at the next election? I think that’s like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas!

 

[mikeey84]

What I find bemusing is that you (and BAS) seem to like democracy but only if it produces the 'right' result.

You are making the classic mistake of not realising the difference between a representative democracy and a direct democracy.

We elect MPs to make decisions based on what' they believe is best for their constituents, not necessarily what they want!

 

[EFLImpudence]

So if it was left to the MP's, would they go against the wishes of the majority of their constituents that could vote them out of a job at the next election?

That is what they should do - or resign saying their principles will not allow them to do what the constituents want.

 

[Newboy]

You are making the classic mistake of not realising the difference between a representative democracy and a direct democ

And you are making the classic mistake of confusing a referendum with an election.

 

[Newboy]

I was assuming you thought what you wrote.

Read what I wrote - it was a question not an opinion.

 

[Brigade77]

We democratically voted to leave & we will leave or there will be Trouble.

I'm not sure where MP's voting for this 'n' that comes into it, except to cloud the real issues in fog.

I liken the current farce in Westminster to a building site where everyone's yelling at the brickie that they can't lay bricks . . . . Yet no one is showing them how to do it.

 

[noseall]

there will be Trouble

There will be trouble either way, especially if the UK ends up with a no-deal Brexit. Both are very ugly unsavoury options for the UK.