Help to say Goodbye to Party Politics. Part Two.

In previous blogs I have explained my reasoning in support of aiming for a government that is divorced from Party Politics. As a first step to achieving this I would hope to see an Independent candidate standing in every constituency in the next election. Voters, throughout the UK, will then have the opportunity to show their feelings as regards to the worth of party politics. It is my wish that every seat will be won by an independent. Failing this I would hope that independent candidates win enough seats to ensure that they either have an overall majority or to be able to exert enough pressure to make their views known and courted.

What ever the outcome it is to be hoped that the question as to who is going to be chosen as Prime Minister will depend on the outcome of a vote in Parliament, the same applies in appointing other Ministers and Deputies.
At this point I wish to query the tradition that seems to require that a Government should fall, and an election be held, if they lose a vote in Parliament. Surely that, in modern jargon, is "not a train smash"? It may well indicate that whoever instigated the matter, that was voted on, did not get it right in some way or other but surely that is the point in a democracy, a matter is debated and then voted on. My contention, explained in a previous blog, that, via a vote of no confidence MPs can force a Minister or Deputy to relinquish their office could be invoked if such a drastic step was felt to be needed.

"In a No Political Party Parliament" it virtually goes without saying that members will discuss matters among themselves, and agree to support particular aims as a group, this is not to say that they will always act in the same group. They should, at all times, be acting in a manner that they feel the majority of voters in their constituency would want; at times they may not agree with what their voters want but they must not assume that they know better than their voters, the MPs must follow the wishes of their voters. As explained previously I feel that voters should be able to force the resignation of "their" MP
In debating a matter, MPs, without having to think about pleasing the hierarchy of a party, will be able to express what they think are the views of "their" voters, as well as arguing the pros and cons as they see them. In my opinion this is how a democratic government should function.

Frederick W Gilling Thursday 25 February 2010