End Party Politics Now
Why? Because There Just Has to be Something More Democratic
How?
How?
As a first step three pieces of legislation must be brought into effect ASAP.
Firstly, voters must be given the right to force the immediate resignation of "their" MP.
Secondly, MPs must be given the right to force any Minister or Deputy Minister out of office.
Thirdly, MPs must be given the right to force the immediate resignation of any MP.
A great deal of thought needs to be given as to the different ways that the above can be accomplished, a guiding principle is that it should be neither too easy or too difficult.
The MP, Minister or Deputy Minister being so sanctioned need not have committed any particular misdeed, the voters or MPs who wish the sanction to be applied may be generally unhappy with the performance of the MP concerned; several ways of initiating the above steps are suggested below, there are many other ways or forms of penalty clauses.
Two different ways in which voters can force the resignation of their MP are given, both are subject to fine tuning, there may well be better ways. The first way is that 5000 [or ?000] voters in the constituency must sign a petition demanding the resignation, the petition and five million £s must be handed in to the designated authority. If the MP concerned does not contest, or loses, the resulting by- election the five million £s are returned to the person who handed it in. The second way is that 10 000 [or ?0000] voters must sign a petition requesting that a referendum be held in the constituency to determine whether or not their MP must resign; this petition must be backed up with a sum of money equal to the cost of holding the referendum. If the MP is forced to resign as a result of the referendum the money handed in to cover the cost is returned, if the MP is not forced to resign then the money is not returned.
MPs may propose a vote of no confidence to force a Minister or Deputy Minister to give up his office or to force an MP to resign; something along the following lines is suggested. Five, ten or??
MPs must put their names on the proposal for a vote of no confidence. If the vote was to force a Minister or Deputy to give up their office and the vote was not carried then the MPs who proposed the vote will each be fined three [?] months salary. If the vote was to force an MP to resign and it was not carried then the MPs who proposed the vote of no confidence must resign.
If the vote to force an MP to resign was carried and the MP concerned then wins the resulting by- election the MPs who proposed the vote of no confidence must resign; they can, however, contest the resulting by-elections.
The question as to whether such votes of no confidence are carried by a simple majority or by some other numerical amount is open to discussion.
To be continued with End Party Politics Two. Frederick W Gilling.
Firstly, voters must be given the right to force the immediate resignation of "their" MP.
Secondly, MPs must be given the right to force any Minister or Deputy Minister out of office.
Thirdly, MPs must be given the right to force the immediate resignation of any MP.
A great deal of thought needs to be given as to the different ways that the above can be accomplished, a guiding principle is that it should be neither too easy or too difficult.
The MP, Minister or Deputy Minister being so sanctioned need not have committed any particular misdeed, the voters or MPs who wish the sanction to be applied may be generally unhappy with the performance of the MP concerned; several ways of initiating the above steps are suggested below, there are many other ways or forms of penalty clauses.
Two different ways in which voters can force the resignation of their MP are given, both are subject to fine tuning, there may well be better ways. The first way is that 5000 [or ?000] voters in the constituency must sign a petition demanding the resignation, the petition and five million £s must be handed in to the designated authority. If the MP concerned does not contest, or loses, the resulting by- election the five million £s are returned to the person who handed it in. The second way is that 10 000 [or ?0000] voters must sign a petition requesting that a referendum be held in the constituency to determine whether or not their MP must resign; this petition must be backed up with a sum of money equal to the cost of holding the referendum. If the MP is forced to resign as a result of the referendum the money handed in to cover the cost is returned, if the MP is not forced to resign then the money is not returned.
MPs may propose a vote of no confidence to force a Minister or Deputy Minister to give up his office or to force an MP to resign; something along the following lines is suggested. Five, ten or??
MPs must put their names on the proposal for a vote of no confidence. If the vote was to force a Minister or Deputy to give up their office and the vote was not carried then the MPs who proposed the vote will each be fined three [?] months salary. If the vote was to force an MP to resign and it was not carried then the MPs who proposed the vote of no confidence must resign.
If the vote to force an MP to resign was carried and the MP concerned then wins the resulting by- election the MPs who proposed the vote of no confidence must resign; they can, however, contest the resulting by-elections.
The question as to whether such votes of no confidence are carried by a simple majority or by some other numerical amount is open to discussion.
To be continued with End Party Politics Two. Frederick W Gilling.
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