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Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy
"Democracy" is a farce as long as you have the whip system.
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No, it's local representation which is broken in the current system where MPs are virtually compelled to toe the party line. It means that rather than voting for someone to represent your needs in parliament you are choosing between two groups of backroom policy makers based on what they claim they will do.
However, as the present incumbents have demonstrated, it is far to easy to promise one thing and deliver something completely different. I'm old enough to remember decades of Labour banging on about civil liberties, but once they were in power it was CCTV on every street corner.
In the end at least we still have the option to vote. So change is still possible, if you can convince enough people to vote for you.
Keith.