Reply to post: Re: Ground rules - what is Parliament for?

Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

Xamol

Re: Ground rules - what is Parliament for?

@IWVC

"So either the allocation of MPs to population is badly wrong or we have MPs putting forward their personal views rather than those of their constituents"

MPs are elected based on a broad range of policy positions. The electorate has to decide which candidate best represents their own positions. In most cases, this will not be a 100% correlation and that has to be accepted. Obviously this gets complicated by additional factors such as toeing the party line but I would argue that this is a well understood modus operandi for non-independent MPs.

That aside, when they come to vote on this in parliament they will have to decide whether to vote in line with the referendum result in their constituency or vote in line with their own preference (if different). That's when things could get interesting...

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