Re: Parliament v Democracy??
As long as we retain the right to vote for our representatives in the House of Commons, we still retain a measure of democracy.
The problem is that, because our MPs are unassailable for a five year period between elections, many of them feel at liberty to behave as they wish including defecting to another political party if they object to the decisions made by the government.
This is one reason why I believe the 'fixed term parliament' is an undemocratic decided by you-know-who.
I know I have said this before, but I strongly believe that two things should be put in place:
- a shorter maximum term before a general election must be called - say 3 years; and
- the facility for an early general election to be called at the insistence of a required number of public demands, along the lines of the facility already in place for the public to call for a specific matter to be discussed in Parliament. This, of course, could easily and quickly take place by means of the internet.