More Blue 'Waffle'

Daniel Kawczynski., Conservative MP for Shdrewsbury and Atcham, has an article on ConHome today bemoaning the fact that English MPs have no voice and that due to the inequalities of constituency size some constituents stand little chance of speaking to their MP. He also raises the small matter regarding the representation of England at Parliament and repeats the point that the Conservatives would create a Grand Committee at which English MPs would have the opportunity of voting on English matters and thereby make Westminster more accountable to the English electorate.

Mr. Kawczynski, if you wish to make Westminster more accountable to the English electorate, why don't you adopt the policies of the UK Independence Party on the subject of how we are governed, which can be found here. What you and the other two main political parties propose is a fudge of the question of what may be termed 'direct democracy. Why for instance can not all that has been devolved to Scotland, not be devolved to local authorities? It has to be said also Mr. Kawczynski that your party's views on democracy are a sham - yes a sham - in view of your avowed wish to remain a member of the European Union.

Come the day when the electorate finally wakes up to the fact that the one thing that MPs are supposed to do - and for which the electorate pays vast sums - represent their constituents, does not exist will be the day that a great number of your kind will be looking for alternative employment. If true representation did exist Mr. Kawzcynski, then you and your kind would not have given away the right of this country to govern itself; something that happened without any permission of the electorate!

It would also greatly help the electorate of this country if Daniel Kawczynski and his compatriots had an original thought. Some time ago I posted on the apparent inability of his Leader to run his office efficiently. It would seem that he and Dominic Grieve suffer the same problem as their leader; or that they copy content from an 'approved hymn sheet'.

In his article Daniel Kawczynski states:

"I do agree with David Cameron on this issue. Ken Clarke’s proposals strike a balance between giving the English electorate the accountability they deserve, and preserving the UK as a single state."

From Little Man in a Togue we get the following:

"In a letter to me, received yesterday, Dominic Grieve told me this:

I do agree with David Cameron on this issue. Ken Clarke's proposals strike a balance between giving the English electorate the accountability they deserve, and preserving the UK as a single state."

This demonstrates my long held belief that MPs only repeat their party's dogma rather than articulating their own beliefs - assuming of course they are capable of any!