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David Cameron you are only scratching the surface, ! Allow me to start with the “extreme option”: MPs have exported their jobs to Brussels which writes 80% of our Laws which never touch the floor of the Commons. We did not ask them to do this, indeed we were never consulted but therefore as they wish to turn Westminster into a Brussels Town Hall, the roughly 650 MPs should be culled with only a maximum 140 left.

Their “constituency work” can be passed to Outreach Workers and failed Social Services Employees of which Boroughs like Harringay seem to have a surfeit, far cheaper than MPs, just as ineffective, self obsessed and incompetent, the public wouldn’t notice the difference.

Keeping the Union Alive

The only way to keep the Union alive is by a Federal System and devolving the power over Health, Education, Policing etc to the County Council and local Parliaments/Assemblies plus the appropriate percentage of centrally raised taxes. Central Government at Westminster should only be responsible for things like Defence, Foreign Policy, Law Making, Prisons, the Judiciary, setting ‘standards’, collecting and distributing the taxes agreed by the Parliament sitting in Westminster as the UK Parliament.

Of course we should leave the EU as the British people have never been asked for a mandate to vote themselves into subjugation to Brussels just for the benefit of politicians and our Senior Civil Servants getting on the Brussels Gravy Train. In addition in these difficult times, we will do better not to pay our current contributions and have some freedom of action.

If We Stay Within the EU

The problem seems to lie at the heart of our “Establishment” which will neither explain nor give the British people a vote on whether we stay or leave. If this remains the case, the Palace of Westminster, can become a dusty Museum to Democracy, perhaps Madam Tussauds might like to put in a robotic exhibition on the floor of the Commons, given the average MP we have are party robots without an original thought anyway, it would look lifelike almost as if it were still going even though, long dead.

Portcullis House could serve as the Brussels Town Hall (SE Britain District 2039)and house the remaining MPs out of sight. I often wonder why they bother televising Parliament, hardly any MP turns up, they only have to sit nicely for a few hours a day and only 100 during the year but, they can’t be bothered to turn up anyway, I guess that they know they are powerless and have thrown the towel in but hold on for the Salary, Expenses, Pension and the John Lewis List.

Our Current Levels of Misrepresentation…

Our current representation excluding Local Government is broadly speaking as follows:

MPs in the Commons – 650, House of Lords – 732, Gravy Train MEPs – 78, Members of the Scottish Parliament – 129, Welsh Assembly Members – 60 and Stormont manages +100.

Now call me “picky” if you like but from considerable managerial experience, it does rather seem to me that in matters of “Representation”, we the citizens are rather having the piss taken out of us, don’t you think ? It wouldn’t take too much imagination to reorganize this shower of crap into something where the representatives are ‘closer’ to the people they represent and have more budgetary power to deliver local benefits to local people.

If we look at Westminster being the UK Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, Stormont, the Scottish Parliament and the English County Councils as being the ‘local representation’, it therefore makes sense that people elected ‘locally’ also become ‘national representatives’ at Westminster for the UK Parliament. Of course within that concept and particularly with the Celtic Nations which whilst having small populations also have specific ‘other needs’ based upon geography and/or cultural issues, there would need to be a ‘filter’ from the ‘local’ to the national level.

An Oddity

Whilst the Welsh being modest, may have less problems between allocating local and national representatives, in both Northern Ireland and Scotland because of the existing numbers, a local representative could not automatically become a national one because it would be disproportionate at the national level.

Equally for England where there are only around 34 County Councils but the majority of the UK population, there would be the opposite problem each County would have to generate multiple MPs.

The point is that this type of Constitutional Reform should never be rushed, anything so substantial should have an automatic +10 years clock set on it and a tight highly focused team created to drive the “questions” leaving the current elected representatives to provide the “answers” to those same questions because eventually, a workable solution will emerge.

However…

As I’ve written elsewhere , the worse abuse we currently under the current system have is the lack of a clear “Separation of Powers” between the Executive (Government) and the Legislature (anybody who is not in the Government). Because ALL powers rest in the Commons and specifically the hands of the Prime Minister of the day plus the rise of the “Professional Politician”, ever keen for career advancement and bugger ‘principles’, our Constitution is undone, the way is clear for a British Dictator to takeover today, Brown could be Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin.

The only immediate remedy open to us is to peg back the political parties by voting in true “Independents” so that no party can ever hold Government again by relying on those jobsworths who have taken the Party Whip and regardless of which party.