Cliff Mitchell - 14/07/2018

Your elected MP owes you their judgment!


Edmund Burke

In the UK our democracy is a form of representative democracy, where our MPs are not delegates with no autonomy to apply their own judgment, but are there to represent us.

Edmund Burke, regarded by many as the founding father of modern conservatism argued that part of the duty of an MP was not simply to communicate the wishes of the electorate but also to use their own judgment in the exercise of their powers, even if their views are not reflective of those of a majority of voters.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. (Edmund Burke)

If your MP, like mine, is now a Brexiteer and yet campaigned to remain in the EU, voted to remain in the EU, and still can't explain how we would be better off if we leave the EU, then, in the words of Edmund Burke, s/he "betrays, instead of serving you".

Now would be a good time to email your MP, ask them to explain how Brexit would be good for you personally, and, if they can't or won't give you a satisfactory answer, then they are  indeed betraying, rather then serving you. Don't let them get away with it - demand a say on the final Brexit deal when and if it is ever agreed.

 

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