Eu referendum whats your vote

dexxy57:

Franglais:
Didnt the expenses scandals etc give you pause for thought about our MPs before this Brexit stuff? Buzzer and yourself are right that everything is writ large with Brexit, but it was hardly all plain sailing in the past was it? You do raise a very valid point of course: do we (should we?) vote in elections for an individual, or for a party? If the latter, shouldnt we have a proportional representative system?

These things did give me pause for thought, although to be honest, I didn’t have to pause for very long. The expenses scandal seemed to be just another example of the complacent insular bubble that was Westminster at the time.
My MP’s over the years, (I’ve lived for the most part in two areas of the UK) have been very loyal to their party and very, very bland, strictly following the orders of the whip.

Should we replace FPTP? Should we vote for a party instead of an individual? It’s a no-brainer really, isn’t it?
When’s that going to happen though? It’s not in the interests of the two main parties. Debate closed.

There’s going to be a general election sooner rather than later. The whole result is going to hinge on about a dozen, maybe twenty, marginal seats.
A bit disgraceful really, but that’s our system for you.

Not much to argue with there.

If the Brexit ball is still in the air we could get a general election decided on that one issue.
If people see the Brexit party as their one shot at that then they could become very strong. And if voted in they will try to push all of their manifesto through.
I googled “Brexit party manifesto” to see what else they would support. They didnt actually have one it seems for the last EU elections. Anyone voting for them was really signing a blank cheque. Not an awful lot on their official site either, but I did come up with this: [thebrexitparty.com/](https://thebrexitparty.com/) Now to be doubly clear, that site isnt Farage, it says, “we’re not really Nigel Farage, but the text above is lifted straight from a Brexit Party leaflet. Apart from the sentence about the manifesto. Nigel Farage has refused to publish one ahead of the elections so we’ve done it for him based on his own words and the statements and policies of his Brexit Party candidates.”
But the quotes from those candidates do stand up to scrutiny…frightening…